Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 317
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 58 min |
| May 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 42 min |
| May 19, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 64 min |
| May 19, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 100 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Borden, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Dawson and 23 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.