Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 6:01 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kerr County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- May 24, 2001, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Real 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
890 WUUS54 KEWX 242305 SVRSAT TXC137-265-385-250000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 601 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... REAL KERR EDWARDS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 601 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SUTTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF ROCKSPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... RURAL EDWARDS COUNTY AT 620 PM RURAL REAL COUNTY AND WEST OF MOUNTAIN HOME AT 650 PM LAT...LON 3053 10012 3043 10029 2987 9991 3002 9965
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 May 24, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 335 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 COLD FRONT NOW PUSHING INTO THE COUNTY WARNING AND FORECAST AREA WITH FALLING DEWPOINTS OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. THEREFORE, THE CHANCE OF RAIN OVER THE AUSTIN AREA APPEARS LESS THAN PREVIOUSLY ASSESSED. WILL KEEP POPS IN THE 10 TO 20 RANGE ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS. WITH NO SIGNIFICANT BUILDUPS NEAR THE AREA, AM LEANING TOWARD SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ALL OTHER AREAS EXCEPT SOUTHEAST. ONCE THUNDERSTORMS BEGIN, SOME ENHANCEMENT IS POSSIBLE AS AN UPSTREAM SHORTWAVE APPROACHES. TOMORROW, ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENT SHOULD UNFOLD AS THE AREA WILL FIND ITSELF IN THE ENTRANCE REGION OF AN UPPER JET WHILE WEAK SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES PASS DOWN IN NW FLOW. 12Z MODEL RUNS CONTINUE THE TREND OF A WEAKER COLD FRONT AND EARLIER RETREAT OF THE FRONTAL ZONE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. WILL TAKE AN AVN/ETA MIX TO END THE CHANCE OF RAIN AFTER SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE UPPER RIDGE TAKING HOLD SUNDAY. ON TEMPS, WILL FAVOR COOLER PREVIOUS FORECAST NUMBERS OVER MODEL GUIDANCE WHICH APPEARS TOO WARM AT NIGHT. THE EXTENDED FORECAST WILL BE LEFT MUCH THE SAME AS MODEL CONSENSUS KEEPS AN UPPER RIDGE OVER SOUTH TX. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 60/83/62/88 2333 DRT 69/94/70/97 2331 SAT 65/85/66/89 2332 .EWX...NONE. 18/2/23
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 2:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-250000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 211 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS OUTLOOK APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC COUNTIES... ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL... COMAL...DEWITT...DIMMIT...EDWARDS...FAYETTE...FRIO...GILLESPIE... GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES...KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY... LAVACA...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE... VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON AND ZAVALA. THE COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...STRONG UPPER LEVEL INSTABILITY...AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE FOR DAMAGING DOWNBURSTS WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HOWEVER ISOLATED SUPER-CELL THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE COLD FRONT WITH TORNADOES POSSIBLE. SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. && FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND...SAN ANGELO...FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORyPUS CHRISTI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.