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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2000, 8:11 PM CDT for Bexar County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2000, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bexar County, TX, Medina County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Devine, TX | A very small and short-lived tornado was observed by officers from the Department of Public Safety in an open area just south of Devine. It caused no known damage. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
586 WFUS54 KEWX 200112 TORSAT TXC029-325-200215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 811 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... MEDINA COUNTY BEXAR COUNTY * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEVINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA COSTE IN WESTERN BEXAR COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LACKLAND AFB AROUND 9 PM CDT LACOSTE AROUND 910 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. LAT...LON 2910 9910 2910 9891 2956 9866 2959 9887
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 60 min |
| May 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 42 min |
| May 19, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 65 min |
| May 19, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 50 min |
| May 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 62 min |
| May 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 56 min |
| May 19, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 100 min |
| May 19, 9:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 103 min |
| May 19, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.