Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 228
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Aransas County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Duval County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Wharton County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 66 min |
| May 2, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 62 min |
| May 2, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 57 min |
| May 2, 2:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Waller | 33 min |
| May 2, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 62 min |
| May 2, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 54 min |
| May 2, 3:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 65 min |
| May 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 58 min |
| May 2, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 46 min |
| May 2, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin, Harris and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 1 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.