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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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.
- 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
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.
JPBThe 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, 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, 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.