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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 26, 2001Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 12:08 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 26, 2001, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Uvalde 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 25, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 26.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 260508
SVRSAT
TXC463-260615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1208 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  UVALDE

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1208 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF MONTELL...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  WEST OF LEAKEY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER MONTELL AT 1225 AM

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.


LAT...LON 2958 9970 2961 10011 2916 10013 2915 9951

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 25, 8:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 8:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
858 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2001

ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE FAR
EASTERN CWA ALONG SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF
HOUSTON TO SAN ANTONIO TO BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND MIDLAND.  APPEARS
THIS THE RESULT OF FAST MOVING SHORT-WAVE DROPPING SOUTHEAST OVER
SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.  THE STORMS COULD PERSIST FOR A LITTLE WHILE
UNTIL SHORT-WAVE PASSES AROUND MIDNIGHT AND WILL MAINTAIN POPS...
ALTHOUGH WILL LOWER TO SLIGHT CHANCE DUE SUNSET AND AIRMASS STILL
REMAINS WORKED OVER FROM CONVECTION OF LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS
MORNING.  WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS ON WINDPS DUE BOUNDARY POSITION
AND MAY MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS ON TEMPERATURES DUE ONGOING TRENDS.
OTHERWISE...LITTLE OR NO OTHER CHANGES.  04/06/JB.

.EWX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 8:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
802 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0740 PM    ROCKSPRINGS               TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   EDWARDS                        REPORTED BY BORDER PATROL

0830 PM    BARKSDALE AND CAMP WOOD   TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   REAL                           POWER LINES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0910 PM    19 N HONDO                TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   MEDINA                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0914 PM    HONDO                     TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   MEDINA                         TREES DOWNED
                                          REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

0920 PM    UVALDE                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   UVALDE                         WIND DAMAGE
                                          THROUGHOUT THE
                                          COUNTY
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0925 PM    DEL RIO TO BRACKETTVILLE  TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   VALVERDE/KINNEY                NUMEROUS TREES
                                          DOWNED

0945 PM    ENCHANTED ROCK STATE PARK TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   LLANO                          OCCURRED AROUND
                                          9PM
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0335 AM    YORKTOWN                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/25/01   DEWITT                         TREES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

JME

Local storm report, May 25, 9:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
932 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0910 PM    2E MOULTON                TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/01   LAVACA                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

JPB

Local storm report, May 25, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
936 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0845 PM       MOULTON                TX   1.5 INCH HAIL
05/25/01      LAVACA                      REPORTED BY LAW                                           ENFORCEMENT
                                          ENFORCEMENT
                                          845-900 PM

CFM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	65 min
May 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	61 min
May 25, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	57 min
May 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	63 min
May 25, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	28 min
May 26, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	65 min
May 26, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Maverick	62 min
May 26, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	28 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.