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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 3:03 PM CST for Gonzales County, Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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, 3:03 PM CST (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Gonzales County, TX, Lavaca County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Dilworth, TX | A small and short-lived tornado was observed by the public as it touched down in an open field. It caused no damage. |
| Nov 12, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Moulton, TX | A small tornado was observed as it touched down ery briefly in an open field just east of Moulton. It caused no damage. |
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 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 122103 TORSAT TXC177-285-122200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 303 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... GONZALES COUNTY LAVACA COUNTY * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 303 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 7 MILES WEST OF SHINER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHINER AT 310 PM CST 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOULTON AT 325 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGH T 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 2947 9744 2939 9723 2963 9687 2962 9715
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, 2:18 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, 3:06 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.