Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 777
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 2, 2000, 1:15 PM CST for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 2000, 1:15 PM CST (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 56 min |
| Nov 2, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 58 min |
| Nov 2, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 62 min |
| Nov 2, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 63 min |
| Nov 2, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 53 min |
| Nov 2, 3:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 59 min |
| Nov 2, 4:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 27 min |
| Nov 2, 5:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 11 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.