Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 2001, 7:37 PM CST for Guadalupe County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 15, 2001, 7:37 PM CST (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Guadalupe County, TX, Wilson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 2644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
195
WUUS54 KEWX 160138
SVRSAT
TXC187-493-160230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
737 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
GUADALUPE
WILSON
* UNTIL 830 PM CST
* AT 737 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW BERLIN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF SCHERTZ...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
4 MILES NORTH OF LA VERNIA AT 745 PM
3 MILES SOUTH OF NEW BERLIN AT 750 PM
* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
LA VERNIA
NEW BERLIN
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
LAT...LON 2953 9808 2933 9822 2925 9780 2936 9788
2952 9776What 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 15, 3:05 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 3:05 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 305 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR GUADALUPE PEAK TO CONTINUE CHURNING OUT BITS OF ENERGY ON ITS SOUTH SIDE. AS THESE VORTICIES COLLIDE WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...EXPECT MORE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN EVENTS ON TOP OF WHAT WEVE ALREADY RECEIVED LAST NIGHT AND TODAY. A BRIEF RESPITE NOTED IN RADAR AND SATELLITE DISPLAYS BUT THIS WILL BE SHORT LIVED AS SATELLITE IMAGERY ALREADY SHOWS A SPEED MAX JETTING ACROSS THE BIG BEND AND NORTHERN MEXICO TOWARD THE RIO GRANDE WITH CONVECTION ONCE MORE BLOSSOMING WEST OF THE RIVER IN RESPONSE TO THIS UPPER-LEVEL FEATURE. UPPER LOW FORECAST TO MOVE OUT ON SUNDAY WITH SOME MENTION OF PRECIP REMAINING IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT AND MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE BODY OF THE FORECAST. TORNADO WATCH TO RUN UNTIL 6 PM CST. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 62/72/60/73 9876 DRT 60/72/60/72 7765 SAT 63/72/62/73 9876 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND HILL COUNTRY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 15, 3:40 PM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
340 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
312 PM 4 N SAN MARCOS TX TORNADO
11/15/01 HAYS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
315 PM 2 S BUDA TX TORNADO
11/15/01 HAYS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
335 PM 4 S AUSTIN BEN WHITE & I35 TX TORNADO ON GROUND
11/15/01 TRAVIS REPORTED BY CITY OF
AUSTIN
WRLocal storm report, Nov 15, 7:34 PM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
734 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0944 AM CANYON LAKE TX FLASH FLOODS
11/15/01 COMAL ROADS UNDERWATER WEST OF
HWY 181 AND NORTH OF CANYON
LAKE
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1120 AM FREDERICKSBURG TX FLASH FLOODS
11/15/01 GILLESPIE HWY 290 WEST BETWEEN
FREDERICKSBURG AND HARPER
CLOSED. WATER ONE FOOT DEEP
AT PLANT CREEK CROSSING
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1255 PM KENEDY TX TORNADO
11/15/01 KARNES TORNADO AT TDJC
PRISONREPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0107 PM 2 S KENEDY TX FUNNEL CLOUD
11/15/01 KARNES FUNNEL CLOUD
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0325 PM BLANCO TX FLASH FLOODS
11/15/01 BLANCO ALL COUNTY ROADS
CLOSED
REPORTED BY MEDIA
0348 PM AUSTIN TX TORNADO
11/15/01 TRAVIS TORNADO AT BEN WHITE AND I
35 IN AUSTIN. 3 LARGE
EVERGREEN TREES BROKEN OFF
AT THE ROOTS. NUMEROUS
MAILBOXES BLOWN OVER.
CARPORTS TORN UP INSIDE APT
COMPLEX
REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0420 PM BOERNE TX TORNADO
11/15/01 KENDALL HOUSE WITH ROOF OFF AT
BOERNE. RANCHER SAW TORNADO
AT FM 300 AND HWY 46.
REPORTED BY HAM
0940 AM WIMBERLY TX TORNADO
11/15/01 HAYS TORNADO REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0420 PM SAN ANTONIO TX FLASH FLOODS
11/15/01 BEXAR DEZAVALA AND I 10
FLOODED
REPORTED BY HAM
0445 PM AUSTIN TX TORNADO
11/15/01 TRAVIS TORNADO NEAR YAGER
LANE
REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0501 PM AUSTIN TX TORNADO
11/15/01 TRAVIS TORNADO WITH DEBRIS AT 685
AND DESSAU
REPORTED BY PUBLIC PUBLIC
0515 PM ROCKSPRINGS TX FLASH FLOODS
11/15/01 EDWARDS *** 1 DEAD ***
PREGNANT LADY DROWNED
REPORTED BY MEDIA
1000 AM BLANCO TX FLASH FLOODS
11/15/01 BLANCO *** 1 DEAD ***
MAN IN PICKUP DROWNED
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AThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 73 min |
| Nov 15, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 65 min |
| Nov 15, 9:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Lee and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 15, 11:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 75 min |
| Nov 16, 2:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 2 hr |
| Nov 16, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 59 min |
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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.