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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 11:28 PM CDT for Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Guadalupe County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 030429 SVRSAT TXC187-030530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1128 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... GUADALUPE COUNTY * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1128 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF MARION...OR ABOUT OVER UNIVERSAL CITY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MARION AROUND 1135 PM CDT MCQUEENEY AROUND 1145 PM CDT SEGUIN AROUND 1150 PM CDT KINGSBURY AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. .END/ LAT...LON 2959 9822 2946 9804 2964 9775 2974 9794
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Zavala | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio, Medina | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 12:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson | 69 min |
| Apr 3, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 50 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.