Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2001, 1:45 PM CST for Edwards County, Real 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 28, 2001, 1:45 PM CST (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2001, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Edwards County, TX, Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 281943 SVRSAT TXC137-385-282030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 145 PM CST WED FEB 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... REAL COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 142 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EDWARDS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 53 MILES NORTHWEST OF UVALDE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... RURAL EDWARDS COUNTY AT 200 PM CST RURAL REAL COUNTY AT 210 PM CST LAT...LON 2993 10028 2980 10013 3010 9978 3027 9992
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 28, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1030 AM CST WED FEB 28 2001 WILL TRIM BACK POPS TO 30 PERCENT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND REMOVE MENTION OF THUNDER. THE MAJORITY OF THE PCPN WILL BE LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE AS WARM AIR OVERRUNS THE COLDER AIR AT THE SFC. MODERATE SHOWERS MAY STILL OCCUR ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WITH A CLAP OF THUNDER STILL POSSIBLE...BUT TOO REMOTE TO MENTION IN FCST. LITTLE REBOUND IN TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO CAA AND OVERCAST SKIES. WINDS WILL ALSO LOWER TO BELOW CAUTION LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL REMOVE CAUTION ON AREA LAKES FROM THE FCST. UPDATED NUMBERS... AUS 045/040/045/042 3666 SAT 05,0/042/047/044 3666 DRT 052/040/047/045 3666 .EWX...NONE. 13
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.