Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 281
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 12, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lee County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Washington County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 63 min |
| May 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 59 min |
| May 12, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 67 min |
| May 12, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 39 min |
| May 12, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 55 min |
| May 12, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 55 min |
| May 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 64 min |
| May 13, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 64 min |
| May 13, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1539 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cass, Cherokee and 16 more | 5 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.