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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 5:07 PM CST for Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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, 5:07 PM CST (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gonzales 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 |
| Nov 12, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.
668 WFUS54 KEWX 122307 TORSAT TXC177-130000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 507 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 * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 507 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALMETO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF LULING...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES NORTH OF GONZALES AT 525 PM CST ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO IS NEAR SMILEY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. 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 2956 9770 2921 9771 2940 9724 2978 9733
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, 3:03 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, 5:14 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.