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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 24, 2001Edwards County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2001, 8:04 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Edwards County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 813 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

881 
WFUS54 KEWX 250106
TORSAT
TXC137-250145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
804 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  EDWARDS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 804 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING OVER
  EDWARDS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCKSPRINGS...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR CARTA VALLEY AT 840 PM


LAT...LON 3025 10043 3015 10061 2977 10038 2989 10016

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie60 min
May 24, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards57 min
May 24, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal44 min
May 24, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney, Val Verde63 min
May 24, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Llano51 min
May 24, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina58 min
May 24, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde56 min
May 24, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet, Llano64 min
May 24, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde, Zavala59 min
May 24, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio, Medina60 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.