Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT for Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Llano County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Llano, TX | |
| May 6, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Llano, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 6, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado 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 255 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
- 2568 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 062301 TORSAT TXC299-062345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... LLANO * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 600 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LLANO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 7 MILES SOUTH OF TOW AT 620 PM 5 MILES NORTH OF CASTELL AT 625 PM 7 MILES NORTH OF KINGSLAND AT 630 PM LAT...LON 3091 9888 3070 9892 3063 984=4 3091 9846
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Maverick | 60 min |
| May 5, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 57 min |
| May 5, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 48 min |
| May 5, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 50 min |
| May 5, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 52 min |
| May 6, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 30 min |
| May 6, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 51 min |
| May 6, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 57 min |
| May 6, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.