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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 11:57 AM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2000, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Frio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 021659 SVRSAT TXC163-021745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1157 AM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... FRIO COUNTY * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1157 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF DILLEY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF BIG WELLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DILLEY AROUND 1210 PM CDT DERBY AROUND 1230 PM CDT VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. .END/ LAT...LON 2870 9940 2865 9940 2865 9911 2893 9911
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 2, 11:15 AM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 11:15 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1115 AM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 CANCELED THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH SINCE MODELS INDICATE A DECREASE IN ACTIVITY THIS MAFTERNOON...RAPID MOVEMENT OF WHAT STORMS THERE ARE... AND SHIFT OF FOCUS OF HEAVY RAIN TOWARD COAST. THREAT OF LARGE HAIL CONTINUES ALL BUT DRT AREA THIS AFTERNOON. .EWX...NONE. 03/01/CA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 6:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-021700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS AREA IS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM JUNCTION TO LEAKEY TO COTULLA. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHWESTERN MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD AND A COLD FRONT WILL STALL ALONG FAR SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. IN ADDITION...A MOIST AIRMASS WILL PERSIST ACROSS SOUTHERN TEXAS. THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND COLD FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH THE MOIST AIRMASS AND AIDED BY DAYTIME HEATING...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...MAINLY ALONG THE FRONT. SOME OF STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER AND MUCH STRONGER COLD FRONT WILL HELP SUSTAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ALSO ARE A POSSIBLE ALONG THE COLD FRONT. SOME OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD REPEATEDLY DEVELOP AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS...PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT. SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD AS THE STORMS LIKELY WILL PERSIST THROUGH TONIGHT AND INTO MONDAY. FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND...SAN ANGELO...FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
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, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 63 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, 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 |
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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.