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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 12, 2001Bandera County, Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 2:04 AM CST for Bandera County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
Mar 12, 2001, 2:04 AM CST (08:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 12, 2001, 3:00 AM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bandera County, TX, Medina County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 11, 11:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1542 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

307 
WUUS54 KEWX 120809
SVRSAT
TXC019-325-120900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
204 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 3 AM CST

* AT 204 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TARPLEY...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST 
OF HONDO.  MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  BETWEEN BANDERA...MEDINA LAKE AND RIO MEDINA AROUND 230 AM 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, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 9:45 PM CST, 4 hours 19 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 10:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde54 min
Mar 11, 10:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal61 min
Mar 11, 11:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Real, Uvalde61 min
Mar 11, 11:42 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde33 min
Mar 12, 12:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Medina64 min
Mar 12, 12:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney57 min
Mar 12, 12:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Kendall65 min
Mar 12, 1:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Real, Uvalde66 min
Mar 12, 1:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis59 min
Mar 12, 1:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal61 min
Mar 12, 1:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Lee, Williamson62 min

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.