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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 5:14 PM CST for Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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, 5:14 PM CST (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lavaca County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Halletsville, TX | A small and short-lived tornado was observed by the public in an open field just north of Hallettsville. No damage was indicated. |
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 |
| Nov 12, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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 122314 TORSAT TXC285-130015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 514 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... LAVACA COUNTY * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 514 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HALLETTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF MOULTON... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 6 MILES NORTH OF SUBLIME AT 545 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. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A WELL-BUILT BUILDING. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO A CENTRAL...SMALL ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...SUCH AS A BATHROOM...CLOSET OR HALLWAY. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WINDOWS AND DOORS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. LAT...LON 2956 9715 2944 9700 2942 9665 2963 9689
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, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 53 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.