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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 7:54 PM CST for Bexar County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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, 7:54 PM CST (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bexar County, TX, Wilson 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 290154 TORSAT TXC029-493-290245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 754 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... WILSON COUNTY BEXAR COUNTY * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 754 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 4 MILES WEST OF ELMENDORF...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN ANTONIO... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FLORESVILLE AROUND 835 PM CST SUTHERLAND SPRINGS AROUND 840 PM CST IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. STAY ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING. .END/ LAT...LON 2941 9845 2919 9843 2906 9810 2934 9806
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, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 42 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.