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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 12:30 AM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2000, 12:30 AM CST (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Del Rio, TX | A small tornado was produced by a supercell storm that had formed in Mexico and moved northeastward into the U.S. The tornado destroyed a small barn, overturned trailers and killed several cattle. The report was made simultaneously by a rancher and a park ran |
| Mar 22, 12:40 AM CST | Hail 2.5 | Del Rio, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 21, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 75 min |
| Mar 22, 1:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 2:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 56 min |
| Mar 22, 2:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.