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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 2, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 2917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
561 WFUS54 KEWX 021810 RRA TORSAT TXC029-021845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 100 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BEXAR COUNTY * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 100 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 7 MILES EAST OF SOMERSET...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF POTEET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELMENDORF AROUND 110 PM CDT CHINA GROVE AROUND 115 PM CDT ST. HEDWIG AROUND 125 PM CDT 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 2922 9868 2914 9843 2946 9816 2957 9833
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 71 min |
| Apr 1, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 56 min |
| Apr 1, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 63 min |
| Apr 1, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 65 min |
| Apr 1, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.