Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 1:15 AM CST for Bandera County, Bexar County, Medina 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, 1:15 AM CST (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 2:00 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, Bexar County, TX, Medina 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
238 WUUS54 KEWX 160715 SVRSAT TXC019-029-325-160800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 115 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... MEDINA COUNTY BEXAR COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 115 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAKEHILLS TO 9 MILES NORTH OF CASTROVILLE...OR FROM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOERNE TO 14 MILES WEST OF LEON VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE 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 2976 9901 2935 9902 2914 9843 2955 9842
The 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 | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 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.