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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 2, 2000Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burnet County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-04-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

471 
WUUS54 KEWX 022215
SVRSAT
TXC053-022315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
515 PM 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...
  BURNET COUNTY

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 515 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF BURNET...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF BUCHANAN DAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE 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/ LAT...LON 3087 9838 3067 9832 3103 9793 3102 9824

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, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
245 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

EXPECT FLURRY OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON TO CALM DOWN THROUGH
LATE EVENING AND RESUME MAINLY OVER EASTERN 2/3 CWA TONIGHT.  VIS
SATELLITE SHOWS NEXT COLD FRONT BARRELING SOUTH THROUGH THE CENTRAL
PLAINS.  FRONT SHOULD MOVE INTO HILL COUNTRY BEFORE SUNRISE AND
THROUGH CWA BY AFTERNOON.  WINDY TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH WIND
ADVISORY LIKELY NEEDED TO BE POSTED BY THE MID SHIFT.  SOME WRAP
AROUND SHOWERS TOMORROW MORNING...AUSTIN/SAT AREA WITH THUNDERSTORMS
LINGERING SE.  DECREASING CLOUDS IN WEST DURING DAY TOMORROW...IN
EAST TOMORROW EVENING.  CHILLY TUESDAY MORNING.  GOOD WARM UP DURING
EXTENDED PERIOD.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AUS 55/68/41/73 53-0
SAT 55/69/43/72 54-0
DRT 53/73/42/75 4300

.EWX...NONE.

03/01/CA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ191-192-205>208-022000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
224 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GUADALUPE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED FROM BEXAR COUNTY INTO GUADALUPE
COUNTY HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY DURING THE PAST HOUR.  THE
THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVED INTO CALDWELL COUNTY.
PRESENTLY ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN FROM EAST OF
AUSTIN TO NEAR BASTROP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 50 MPH.
Local storm report, Apr 2, 4:29 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
429 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0135 PM    LOSOYA                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BEXAR

0115 PM    10 SE SAN ANTONIO         TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BEXAR                          HAIL COVERED THE GROUND AT
                                          INTERSECTION
                                          OF I37/181.

JPB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 1, 8:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa71 min
Apr 1, 8:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet67 min
Apr 1, 8:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson67 min
Apr 1, 9:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar56 min
Apr 1, 10:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall63 min
Apr 1, 10:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa65 min
Apr 1, 10:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco54 min
Apr 2, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet60 min
Apr 2, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio48 min
Apr 2, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar58 min
Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa42 min
Apr 2, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBexar45 min
Apr 2, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe43 min
Apr 2, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet52 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.