Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 12:45 AM CST for Bandera County, Kendall County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 16, 2001, 12:45 AM CST (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bandera County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
003 WUUS54 KEWX 160645 RRA SVRSAT TXC019-259-265-325-160730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1245 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... MEDINA COUNTY KENDALL COUNTY KERR COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY * UNTIL 130 AM CST * AT 1245 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BANDERA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HONDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BANDERA AT 100 AM CST VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 2961 9936 2948 9922 2984 9872 3004 9894
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 Feb 15, 9:10 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 9:10 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 910 PM CST THU FEB 15 2001 SELS HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 20 FOR A GOOD PORTION OF CWA VALID UNTIL 2 AM CST. SINCE ZONES ALREADY MENTION THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME LOCALLY SEVERE IN THE BODY MOST LIKELY WONT UPDATE ATTM. ONE HEFTY CALL HAS MADE ITS WAY ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE AND ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY INTO EDWARDS COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM AS OF YET BUT RADAR DISPLAYS HAD GOOD DBZ AND VIL LEVELS WITH THE CELL PLUS A TVS ALARM. FIRST WENT WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE RIVER THEN UPGRADED TO TORNADO WARNING WHEN THE CELL STARTED INCREASING IN INTENSITY AND BECAME A RIGHT MOVER. THEN THE TVS ALARMED. STILL MORE ACTIVITY SOUTHWEST OF THIS INITIAL DEVELOPMENT SO LOOKS LIKE THE REST OF THIS EVENING AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING WILL BE ACTIVE ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. GOT OUR FIRST LOOK AT SCAN IN THE NEW AWIPS LOAD. SEEMS TO BE WORKING OKAY. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 16, 12:00 AM CST, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1200 AM CST THU FEB 16 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0840 PM COMSTOCK TX 1.00 INCH HAIL 02/15/01
VALVERDE REPORTED BY OBSERVER
0900 PM LOMA ALTA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 VALVERDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERS
0910 PM LOMA ALTA TX 40 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/15/01 VALVERDE REPORTED BY OBSERVER
0910 PM LOMA ALTA TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 VALVERDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERS
1030 PM 20 W ROCKSPRINGS TX 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 EDWARDS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1025 PM DEL RIO TX 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1025 PM DEL RIO TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERS
1115 PM 20 SW DEL RIO TX 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1025 PM DEL RIO TX WIND DAMAGE
02/15/01 VAL VERDE TREE BLOWN DOWN
REPORTED BY OBSERVER
1115 PM DEL RIO TX 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1100 PM DEL RIO TX WIND DAMAGE
02/15/01 VAL VERDE SIGNS AND BARACADES BLOWN
DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1025 PM DEL RIO TX 40 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/15/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERS
1140 PM UTOPIA TX 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/15/01 UVALDE ZREPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 8:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 10:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 46 min |
| Feb 15, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real, Uvalde | 55 min |
| Feb 15, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 55 min |
| Feb 16, 12:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 45 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.