Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2001, 12:45 PM CST for Bandera 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 14, 2001, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2001, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bandera County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1001 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
510 WUUS54 KEWX 141847 SVRSAT TXC019-141945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1245 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BANDERA * UNTIL 145 PM CST * AT 1245 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 32 MILES WEST OF BANDERA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * PEOPLE IN THE VANDERPOOL AREA AND TOWARD MEDINA SHOULD PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINS... AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 2991 9961 2965 9961 2963 9900 2991 9919
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 Nov 14, 11:11 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 11:11 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1111 AM CST WED NOV 14 2001 SHORT-WAVE AND SPEED MAX WILL MOVE ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON. THUS...WILL MAINTAIN POPS...ALTHOUGH MAY TWEAK. SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS MAY ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AND WILL ADD THEM THERE. TEMPERATURES RISING THROUGH THE 70S DUE TO THOSE BREAKS AND WILL RAISE A CATEGORY OR SO. MAY TWEAK WINDS A LITTLE AS WELL. 04/03. .EWX...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| Nov 14, 11:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 52 min |
| Nov 14, 1:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 67 min |
| Nov 14, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 65 min |
| Nov 14, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 63 min |
| Nov 14, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 64 min |
| Nov 14, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 67 min |
| Nov 14, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 60 min |
| Nov 14, 5:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
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.