Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2001, 10:29 PM CST for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2001, 10:29 PM CST (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2001, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 11:14 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Leakey, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 120434 SVRSAT TXC385-120530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1029 PM CST SUN MAR 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... REAL COUNTY * UNTIL 1130 PM CST * AT 1029 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF THE CAMP WOOD/BARKSDALE AREA. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD THE CAMP WOOD/BARKSDALE AREA. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... IN THE CAMP WOOD/BARKSDALE AREA AROUND 1110 PM CST
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 Mar 11, 9:45 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 9:45 PM CST, 44 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 945 PM CST SUN MAR 11 2001 UPDATED ZONE FORECASTS TO INCLUDE THUNDER IN THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND HILL COUNTRY FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. SPC SUGGESTS A WATCH MAY BE IN ORDER SHORTLY IF CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND SLIP SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST COUNTIES. ALSO MENTIONED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO AREAS AS WELL. .EWX...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 54 min |
| Mar 11, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real, Uvalde | 61 min |
| Mar 11, 11:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 12:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real, Uvalde | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 59 min |
| Mar 12, 1:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Williamson | 62 min |
| Mar 12, 2:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 56 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.