Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT for Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
- May 12, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lampasas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
310 WUUS54 KFWD 130010 SVRFTW TXC281-130100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCSAT REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 709 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAMPASAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF LAMPASAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAMPASAS AROUND 715 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED HAIL UP TO GOLBALL SIZE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH NO WARNING. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A STURDY STRUCTURE IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED OR THREATENING CLOUDS APPROACH. LAT...LON 3113 9816 3106 9835 3103 9838 3104 9806
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 30 min |
| May 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 48 min |
| May 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 25 min |
| May 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 50 min |
| May 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 31 min |
| May 12, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 49 min |
| May 12, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 50 min |
| May 12, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 46 min |
| May 12, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 55 min |
| May 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 45 min |
| May 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 49 min |
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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.