Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 8:42 PM CDT for Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kinney County, TX, Val Verde 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 250145 SVRSAT TXC271-465-250245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 842 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KINNEY VAL VERDE * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 842 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SMALL CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF ALAMO VILLAGE TO LOMA ALTA...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES EAST OF ALAMO VILLAGE AT 910 PM DEL RIO AT 930 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... ALAMO VILLNAGE BRACKETTVILLE VERY LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 2961 10092 2926 10107 2911 10015 2961 10018
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, 7:50 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 7:50 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 750 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNITL 2 AM FRIDAY...NO OTHER CHANGES AS ONGOING FORECAST ON TRACK. 04/06/JB PREVIOUS DISCUSSION UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM... NO OTHER CHANGES AS ONGOING FORECAST ON TRACK. 04/06/JB AFTERNOON DISCUSSION... 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 m
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 60 min |
| May 24, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 57 min |
| May 24, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 41 min |
| May 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 44 min |
| May 24, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 51 min |
| May 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 56 min |
| May 24, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano | 64 min |
| May 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 59 min |
| May 24, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 60 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.