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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 7:33 PM CST for Caldwell County, Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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, 7:33 PM CST (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Caldwell County, TX, Hays County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 1046 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 290137 COR TORSAT TXC055-209-290215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 733 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 CALDWELL COUNTY * UNTIL 815 PM CST * AT 733 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF KYLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WIMBERLEY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. .END/ LAT...LON 3014 9800 2997 9799 2982 9760 2994 9763
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, 6:38 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, 7:54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.