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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 22, 2000, 4:46 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Hays County, Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 22, 2000, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 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, Travis County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 4:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kyle, TX | A downburst from a severe thunderstorm damaged trees, homes between Martindale and Kyle |
| Oct 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Austin, TX | Reported by Ham spotters near William Cannon drive and I-35. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 1741 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 222155 TORSAT TXC055-209-453-222245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 446 PM CDT SUN OCT 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... TRAVIS COUNTY HAYS COUNTY CALDWELL COUNTY * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 446 PM CDT...A PILOT OBSERVED A TORNADO AT THE SAN MARCOS AIRPORT. THE TORNADO WAS REPORTED MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR KYLE AND BUDA AT 5 PM CDT NEAR NIEDERWALD AT 5 PM CDT NEAR MUSTANG RIDGE AT 510 PM CDT APPROACHING THE CITY OF AUSTIN AROUND 530 PM CDT * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... BUDA KYLE SAN MARCOS UHLAND NIEDERWALD MUSTANG RIDGE LAT...LON 2993 9791 2981 9777 3039 9747 3057 9806
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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.