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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 9, 2001Maverick County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2001, 2:04 PM CDT for Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 2001, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Maverick County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 12:00Z on 2001-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2403 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2001-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

468 
WUUS54 KEWX 091904
SVRSAT
TXC323-092000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
204 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 204 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF EL INDIO...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER EL INDIO AT 220 PM

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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 Sep 9, 1:44 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 1:44 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
144 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2001

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO SURGE SOUTH AND EXTENDS FROM NEAR
EAGLE PASS TO ALICE AND THEN INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO.  MEANWHILE...
FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY.  ALL CONVECTION ALONG
THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY.  SO FAR...NO DEVELOPMENT ALONG FRONT IN SPITE
OF GOOD HEATING AHEAD OF IT.  SUSPECT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE STABILIZED
AIRMASS.  AS A RESULT...WILL CANCEL FLASH FLOOD WATCH...ESPECIALLY
AS MOST INTENSE CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE WEST OF WATCH AREA
AS THIS HAS BEST HEATING POTENTIAL.  WILL LOWER POPS AS WELL.  MAY
ADJUST TEMPERATURES AND WINDS.  04/06/AS.

.EWX...NONE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 10:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde2 hr

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.