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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

February 22, 2000Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 9:55 PM CST for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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: Feb 22, 2000, 9:55 PM CST (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2000, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kinney County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 2362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 9.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 230359
TORSAT
TXC271-230430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
955 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  KINNEY COUNTY

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 955 PM CST...TWO SLOW-MOVING TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF KINNEY COUNTY AT 20 MPH. 

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
STAY ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING.

.END/ LAT...LON 2955 10062 2929 10051 2938 10022 2952 10035

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 7:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	28 min
Feb 22, 8:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards	67 min
Feb 22, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	56 min
Feb 22, 8:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	67 min
Feb 22, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	65 min
Feb 22, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	60 min
Feb 22, 8:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	58 min
Feb 22, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real	66 min
Feb 22, 8:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	31 min
Feb 22, 9:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards	38 min
Feb 22, 9:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	30 min
Feb 22, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	59 min
Feb 22, 10:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	39 min
Feb 22, 10:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	39 min
Feb 22, 11:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	65 min
Feb 22, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Uvalde, Zavala	60 min
Feb 22, 11:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Zavala	76 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.