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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 24, 2001Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2001, 6:09 AM CST for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
Mar 24, 2001, 6:09 AM CST (12:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2001, 7:15 AM CST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -99 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 241209
SVRSAT
TXC287-241315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
609 AM CST SAT MAR 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 AM CST

* AT 609 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES NORTHWEST OF GIDDINGS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  5 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON AT 620 AM CST


LAT...LON 3038 9711 3019 9706 3029 9678 3045 9693

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.