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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 2:18 PM CST for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 12, 2000, 2:18 PM CST (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bastrop County, TX
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 12, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 122019 TORSAT TXC021-122115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 218 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 * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 218 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSANKY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SMITHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A SECOND THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER BASTROP...MOVING IN THE SAME SPEED AND DIRECTION. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSANKY AT 230 PM CST OVER SMITHVILLE AT 255 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER+ IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2994 9749 2980 9733 3002 9706 3030 9717
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 1:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette | 63 min |
| 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, 2:31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.