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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 2, 2000, 4:48 PM CST for Kendall County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
- Nov 2, 2000, 4:48 PM CST (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 022248 TORSAT TXC259-265-022315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 448 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KENDALL COUNTY KERR COUNTY * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 448 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 3 MILES SOUTH OF COMFORT...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SISTERDALE AT 455 PM CST LAT...LON 3000 9900 2987 9885 3001 9853 3016 9871 w
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 56 min |
| Nov 2, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 58 min |
| Nov 2, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 62 min |
| Nov 2, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 63 min |
| Nov 2, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 53 min |
| Nov 2, 3:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 59 min |
| Nov 2, 4:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 5:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.