Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2001, 11:35 PM CST for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Feb 15, 2001, 11:35 PM CST (05:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kerr 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 160535 SVRSAT TXC019-265-385-463-160630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1135 PM CST THU FEB 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KERR COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY * UNTIL 1230 AM CST * AT 1135 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEAKEY...OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTH OF UVALDE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... RURAL BANDERA COUNTY AT 1150 PM CST RURAL KERR COUNTY AT 1220 AM CST VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 2970 9983 2958 9968 2994 9919 3013 9941
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, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 25 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 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.