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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 28, 2000Blanco County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 6:16 PM CST for Blanco County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 28, 2000, 6:16 PM CST (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Blanco County, TX

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 28, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 255 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 290017
TORSAT
TXC031-290115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
616 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  BLANCO COUNTY

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 616 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 4 MILES
  WEST OF JOHNSON CITY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROUND
  MOUNTAIN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  JOHNSON CITY AROUND 625 PM CST
  PEDERNALES FALLS STATE PARK AROUND 655 PM CST

.END/ LAT...LON 3037 9856 3021 9852 3031 9823 3047 9837

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Hays	52 min
Mar 28, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	64 min
Mar 28, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	40 min
Mar 28, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar	67 min
Mar 28, 7:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hall	24 min
Mar 28, 7:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Hays	42 min
Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	51 min
Mar 29, 2:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	56 min
Mar 29, 3:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	64 min
Mar 29, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	60 min
Mar 29, 6:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	27 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.