Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 133
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CST for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Travis County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 6:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 27 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 11 more | 7 hr |
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.