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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 14, 2001Bandera County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2001, 2:42 PM CST for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
Nov 14, 2001, 2:42 PM CST (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Nov 14, 2001, 3:45 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bandera County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1001 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 142058
SVRSAT
TXC019-142145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 242 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER UVALDE COUNTY UTOPIA AND RIO FRIO MOVING 
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
NEAR VANDERPOOL AT 3 PM
NEAR MEDINA AT 315 PM

* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
VANDERPOOL
MEDINA
BANDERA
TARPLEY

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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.

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, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 11:11 AM CST, 3 hours 31 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, 1:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa67 min
Nov 14, 2:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa65 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

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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.