Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2001, 4:52 AM CST for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2001, 4:52 AM CST (10:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 5:05 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Boerne, TX | A small tornado rated F0 struck in the open near Boerne...causing spotty minor damage to trees. |
| Nov 15, 5:20 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Boerne, TX | A second and larger tornado was observed by the Kendall County Sheriff's Department 4 miles west of Boerne along SH46. This tornado moved toward the northeast, causing extensive damage to mobile homes, trees, fences, and roofs. No injuries were reported. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
212
WFUS54 KEWX 151053
TORSAT
TXC259-151130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
452 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
KENDALL
* UNTIL 530 AM CST
* AT 452 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BOERNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR BOERNE AT 500 AM
NEAR KENDALIA AT 520 AM
LAT...LON 2983 9892 2974 9876 2977 9867 2995 9846
3012 9861 3013 9891The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 6:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Travis | 2 hr |
| Nov 14, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 60 min |
| Nov 14, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 55 min |
| Nov 14, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 73 min |
| Nov 14, 9:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 67 min |
| Nov 14, 11:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 73 min |
| Nov 15, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 2:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Medina, Real | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 58 min |
| Nov 15, 5:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 6:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 6:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 6:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 6:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 8:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 9:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 9:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 43 min |
| Nov 15, 10:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 10:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis | 50 min |
| Nov 15, 11:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 53 min |
| Nov 15, 12:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 50 min |
| Nov 15, 12:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Medina | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Gillespie, Hays and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 2:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 62 min |
| Nov 15, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 34 min |
| Nov 15, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 63 min |
| Nov 15, 5:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 56 min |
| Nov 15, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 70 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.