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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:53 PM CST for Comal County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 6:53 PM CST (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Comal County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Seguin, TX | A small and short-lived tornado struck near a building along SH46 just north of I-10. The tornado destroyed two large trees. |
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 26, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1032 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 270059 TORSAT TXC091-187-270200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 653 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... COMAL COUNTY GUADALUPE COUNTY * UNTIL 8 PM CST * AT 653 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS...OR IN THE SATTLER-CANYON LAKE AREA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD NEW BRAUNFELS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTUR!E SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. .END/ LAT...LON 2993 9828 2980 9814 2957 9802 2963 9781
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 59 min |
| Mar 26, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Wilson | 61 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.