Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 9:07 PM CST for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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
- Feb 22, 2000, 9:07 PM CST (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Edwards County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 2362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 230313 TORSAT TXC137-230345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 907 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... EDWARDS COUNTY * UNTIL 945 PM CST * AT 907 PM CST...A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARTA VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD REACH BARKSDALE AROUND 940 PM CST. IF IN A MOBLE HOME SEEK SAFE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. .END/ LAT...LON 2984 10067 2968 10060 2969 10035 2989 10039
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Feb 22, 8:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 65 min |
| Feb 22, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| Feb 22, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 58 min |
| Feb 22, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 66 min |
| Feb 22, 8:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 59 min |
| Feb 22, 9:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 10:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 65 min |
| Feb 22, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Uvalde, Zavala | 60 min |
| Feb 22, 11:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Zavala | 76 min |
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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.