Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 141
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 1, 2000, 8:00 PM CST for 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2000, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Travis County, TX, Webb County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zapata County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 57 min |
| Apr 1, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 71 min |
| Apr 1, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 56 min |
| Apr 1, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 63 min |
| Apr 1, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 65 min |
| Apr 1, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 4 more | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.