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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2001, 5:29 PM CST for Comal County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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, 5:29 PM CST (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Comal County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 6:35 PM CST | Tornado F0 | New Braunfels, TX | An F0 tornado formed just east of New Braunfels in Comal County and moved northeastward toward the National Weather Service Office near the New Braunfels Airport in Guadalupe County. The tornado was mostly in open country in Comal County and caused no signifi |
| Nov 15, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado F0 | New Braunfels, TX | The tornado listed in Comal County above moved into Guadalupe County and dissipated after causing extensive roof damage to two barns and scattered debris in various directions. One barn was completely de-roofed. Some of the metal tin in second barn was lifted |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 11:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
910 WFUS54 KEWX 152330 TORSAT TXC091-187-160030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 529 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... COMAL GUADALUPE * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 529 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS...OR NEAR GARDEN RIDGE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR NEW BRAUNFELS AT 555 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... NEW BRAUNFELS THIS STORM WILL CAUSE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2970 9835 2955 9822 2977 9795 2993 9817
The 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, 4:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall | 38 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, 5:50 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.