Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2000, 10:12 PM CST for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2000, 10:12 PM CST (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2000, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 020413 SVRSAT TXC259-020515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1012 PM CST SAT APR 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KENDALL COUNTY * UNTIL 1115 PM CST * AT 1012 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES nSOUTH OF BOERNE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. .END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 71 min |
| Apr 1, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 56 min |
| Apr 1, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 65 min |
| Apr 1, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 52 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.