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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 28, 2000Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 6:38 PM CST for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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, 6:38 PM CST (00:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hays 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 277 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 290038
TORSAT
TXC209-290130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
638 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...
  HAYS COUNTY

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 638 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 6 MILES
  WEST OF HENLY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLANCO...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HENLY AROUND 645 PM CST
  DRIPPING SPRINGS AROUND 700 PM CST
  DRIFTWOOD AROUND 705 PM CST

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 3030 9818 3005 9828 2989 9798 3017 9795

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Blanco	59 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

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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.