Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2001, 9:20 PM CST for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- Feb 15, 2001, 9:20 PM CST (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2001, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:30 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Rocks Spgs, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 160322 SVRSAT TXC137-160345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 920 PM CST THU FEB 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... EDWARDS COUNTY * UNTIL 945 PM CST * AT 920 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EDWARDS COUNTY...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCKSPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 8:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 10:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 46 min |
| Feb 15, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real, Uvalde | 55 min |
| Feb 15, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 55 min |
| Feb 16, 12:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 45 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.