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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 13, 2001Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:29 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
Jun 13, 2001, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kinney County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 25 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3860 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

016 
WUUS54 KEWX 140230
SVRSAT
TXC271-140330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
929 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  KINNEY

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 929 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KINNEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  BRACKETTVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
OVER RURAL KINNEY COUNTY THROUGH 940 PM

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 2921 10069 2916 10045 2962 10040 2962 10069

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 Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
320 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

MEXICAN HIGHLANDS ALREADY FIRING OFF LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EXPECT
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO DRIFT ACROSS THE WESTERN PLATEAU (DEL
RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY) AREA THIS EVENING.  SURFACE CONVERGENCE AND
RICH MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE FRONT TOMORROW WILL GIVE SLIGHT CHANCES
FOR SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS.  STRONG DIG OF UPPER JET ACROSS
SOUTHERN ROCKIES WILL PUSH A WEAK FRONT INTO THE AREA TOMORROW NIGHT
AND EARLY FRIDAY WITH AN ENHANCED CHANCE FOR SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS.  THIS FRONT MAY HANG TOUGH ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TO
ALONG THE COASTAL PLAINS RESULTING IN A CONTINUED CHANCE FOR SHOWERS
OR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY.  UPPER RIDGING BUILDS BACK ACROSS
AREA SUNDAY WITH MOSTLY DRY AND HOT CONDITIONS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF
NEXT WEEK.

PRELIMS...
AUS 077/097 073/092 068 02124
DRT 080/102 073/098 071s 02123
SAT 078/097 073/093 070 02123=

.EWX...NONE.

02/19

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.