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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 8:23 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 22, 2000, 8:23 PM CST (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 67 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 02:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 8:30 PM CST | Hail 1.5 | Loma Alta, 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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 2362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 230225 TORSAT TXC465-230330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 823 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... VAL VERDE COUNTY * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 823 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF C%OMSTOCK... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...LAKE AMISTAD AND THE AREA BETWEEN HIGHWAYS 90 AND 377. .END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Feb 22, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 65 min |
| Feb 22, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| Feb 22, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 58 min |
| Feb 22, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 66 min |
| Feb 22, 8:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 9:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 59 min |
| Feb 22, 9:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 10:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 65 min |
| Feb 22, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Uvalde, Zavala | 60 min |
| Feb 22, 11:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Zavala | 76 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.