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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 7:53 PM CST for DeWitt County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
- Mar 10, 2000, 7:53 PM CST (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County DeWitt County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 110158 TORSAT TXC123-110230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 753 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... DEWITT COUNTY * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 753 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORDHEIM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NORDHEIM AROUND 816 PM CST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A WELL-BUILT BUILDING. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO A CENTRAL...SMALL ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...SUCH AS A BATHROOM...CLOSET OR HALLWAY. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WINDOWS AND DOORS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. .END/ LAT...LON 2881 9808 2868 9794 2902 9736 2909 9780
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes | 61 min |
| Mar 10, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 65 min |
| Mar 10, 7:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 54 min |
| Mar 10, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 60 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.