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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 14, 2001Atascosa County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2001, 1:38 PM CST for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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, 1:38 PM CST (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Nov 14, 2001, 2:45 PM CST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Atascosa County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1072 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
1072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 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.

925 
WUUS54 KEWX 141940
SVRSAT
TXC013-142045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
138 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 138 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF JOURDANTON...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.  PEOPLE IN AND 
  AROUND THE CHARLOTTE AND JOURDANTON AREAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR LARGE
  HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND FREQUENT
  LIGHTNING.


LAT...LON 2865 9880 2865 9842 2911 9844 2922 9878

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, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 11:11 AM CST, 2 hours 27 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 9:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde39 min
Nov 14, 11:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde52 min
Nov 14, 12:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera60 min
Nov 14, 2:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa65 min
Nov 14, 2:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera63 min
Nov 14, 3:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio64 min
Nov 14, 4:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Medina67 min
Nov 14, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Medina60 min
Nov 14, 5:59 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.