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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 12, 2000Guadalupe County, Wilson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 5:43 PM CST for Guadalupe County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Guadalupe County, TX, Wilson 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 122344
TORSAT

TXC187-493-130045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
543 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...
  WILSON COUNTY
  GUADALUPE COUNTY

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 543 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 6 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF NEW BERLIN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF STOCKDALE...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS OF A TORNADO IS NEAR DEWEES 
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR POTH AT 600 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 2943 9818 2902 9830 2888 9820 2966 9767
          2965 9790

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, 5:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	61 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.