Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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.
- 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
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
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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.