Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT for Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Oct 5, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kinney County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WUUS54 KEWX 060012 SVRSAT TXC271-463-060115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 715 PM CDT FRI OCT 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... UVALDE KINNEY * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 715 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRACKETTVILLE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF UVALDE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER.
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 Oct 5, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 330 PM CDT FRI OCT 5 2001 THREE AREAS OF CONCERN TODAY. THE GULF MOISTURE ALONG THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CWA...TROPICAL MOISTURE MOVING OVER THE CENTRAL TO SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES AND THE COLD FRONT ON THE NORTH EDGE OF THE HILL COUNTRY. THE COLD FRONT HAS SLOWED ITS SOUTHERLY PROGRESSION AND MAY CONFORM TO THE TIMING OF THE ETA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE ALONG THE FRONT WHERE DYNAMICS ARE BEST. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THE DEEPER TROPICAL MOISTURE. RAIN SHOULD TAPPER OFF SATURDAY AFTERNOON...A STRONG PROGRESSION OF COLD AIR BEHIND THE FRONT SHOULD DRY THE LOWER ATMS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 051/063 050/070 8200 DRT 055/069 055/076 6200 SAT 054/066 052/073 8200 .EWX...NONE. 23/03/06
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-052200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 300 PM CDT FRI OCT 5 2001 A STRONG COLD FRONT HAS MOVED TO THE JUST NORTH OF THE HILL COUNTRY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE MOVEMENT HAS DECREASED TO 10 MPH, AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG ITS BOUNDARY. SOME HAIL, DEADLY LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS. AFTER SUNSET, THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE OUT OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE AUSTIN AREA AROUND 7 PM...AND THE DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO AREAS AROUND 9 PM. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT ARE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS, CLOUDY SKIES, TEMPERATURES NEAR 60 DEGREES, AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS TONIGHT WILL AVERAGE BETWEEN ONE HALF AND ONE INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS UP TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE COLDER AIR AND WINDS WILL CREATE WIND CHILL INDICES 10 DEGREES COLDER THAN THE ACTUAL AIR TEMPERATURE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR THE LATER STATMENTS OR WARNINGS.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.