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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 12, 2000Bastrop County, Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 1:07 PM CST for Bastrop County, Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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: Nov 12, 2000, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2000, 2:10 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Fayette County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 12, 1:50 PM CST	Tornado F0	Rosanky, TX	A small and short-lived tornado was observed by the owner of a gas station as it dipped down and damaged the pump area. The tornado moved across a road and blew down trees near a school. It then lifted and dissipated.
Nov 12, 2:05 PM CST	Tornado F0	West Pt, TX	A woman reported seeing a small tornado as it dipped down out of the clouds near West Point and damaged several trees. The very brief tornado then lifted and dissipated.

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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 251 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 121908
TORSAT

TXC021-149-122000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
107 PM CST SUN NOV 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  BASTROP COUNTY
  FAYETTE COUNTY

* UNTIL 210 PM CST

* AT 107 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 7 MILES
  WEST OF ROSANKY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BASTROP...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BASTROP AT 130 PM CST
  OVER CIRCLE D-KC nESTATES AT 145 PM CST


LAT...LON 2996 9741 2984 9725 2986 9684 3031 9723

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 1:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Caldwell	47 min
Nov 12, 1:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	48 min
Nov 12, 1:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	61 min
Nov 12, 2:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop	57 min
Nov 12, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Hays	59 min
Nov 12, 2:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	63 min
Nov 12, 3:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Lavaca	57 min
Nov 12, 3:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Caldwell	54 min
Nov 12, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop	63 min
Nov 12, 3:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	48 min
Nov 12, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	61 min
Nov 12, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Wilson	56 min
Nov 12, 5:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gonzales	53 min
Nov 12, 5:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	61 min
Nov 12, 5:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Guadalupe, Wilson	62 min
Nov 12, 5:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.