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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 1:10 AM CDT for DeWitt County, Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 3, 2000, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties DeWitt County, TX, Karnes County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 030611 TORSAT TXC123-255-030700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 110 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... DEWITT COUNTY KARNES COUNTY * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 110 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUNGE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF KARNES CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... YORKTOWN AROUND 120 AM CDT WESTHOFF AROUND 130 AM CDT CUERO AROUND 135 AM CDT 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. LAT...LON 2900 9786 2881 9775 2910 9706 2931 9728
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Zavala | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio, Medina | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 62 min |
| Apr 2, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 12:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson | 69 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.