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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 26, 2001Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 1:47 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fayette County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 2047 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 261848
SVRSAT

TXC149-261915-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 147 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LA GRANGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND TO THE SOUTH OF...
  LA GRANGE

WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM.


LAT...LON 2987 9706 2964 9692 2998 9660 3006 96u71

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 26, 9:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
954 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THUNDERSTORMS MAINTAINING STRONG INTENSITY AND ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF
REGENERATION AS THEY CHUG SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WILL INCREASE POPS TO
40-50 PERCENT RANGE AND MENTION SEVERE IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES.
MORNING CAPES ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 4 KJ/KG OVER THESE EASTERN
COUNTIES WHERE DEWPOINTS HAVE CLIMBED INTO THE MID 70S. FOR THIS
ENHANCED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND INCREASED CLOUD COVER WILL
PENALIZE THESE AREAS A FEW POINTS ON HIGH TEMPERATURES. DUE TO THE
UNSTABLE NATURE OF THE FORECAST AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS HOLIDAY
WEEKEND, WILL LIKELY ISSUE AN EARLY AFTERNOON UPDATE.

.EWX...NONE.

18/10/23

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, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	67 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.