Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 2001, 9:55 PM CST for Kerr County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2001, 9:55 PM CST (03:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kerr County, TX, Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 666 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 290355 SVRSAT TXC265-385-290500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 955 PM CST SUN JAN 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... REAL COUNTY KERR COUNTY * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 954 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF LEAKEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA AT 1020 PM CST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2981 10006 2968 9991 3007 9941 3025 9959
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 28, 9:12 PM CST, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 9:12 PM CST, 43 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 912 PM CST SUN JAN 28 2001 ONGOING EWX CWA FORECAST ON TRACK. SEVERE STORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL REMAIN POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH...AS COLD LAYER DEEPENS THREAT OF SEVERE WINDS DECREASING. ANTICIPATE NO FORECAST UPDATE. 04/18. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 6:45 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-290400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 645 PM CST SUN JAN 28 2001 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS EVENING THROUGH MUCH OF TONIGHT FOR NEARLY ALL OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO ARE INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL AREA. AN UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL COMBINE WITH A COLD FRONT TO PRODUCE A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THIS SQUALL LINE WILL LIKELY FORM OVER THE HILL COUNTRY BY 10 PM AND SPREAD EAST ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. WITH NEARLY SATURATED SOILS ACROSS MOST AREAS...BRIEF FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE THREATS WILL DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES MORE STABLE AIR INTO THE REGION. SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED TONIGHT ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...ESPECIALLY IF A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH OR WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TV...RADIO...CABLE TV STATIONS...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 10:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 59 min |
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.