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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2001, 5:50 PM CST for Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 70 min. 1 report 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, 5:50 PM CST (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 6:02 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Pflugerville, TX | A small and short-lived F0 tornado was spotted by the public who had been trained in NWS public safety programs. The tornado occurred in an open area and caused no damage. |
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 |
| Nov 15, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
670 WFUS54 KEWX 152354 TORSAT TXC453-491-160100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 550 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... WILLIAMSON TRAVIS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 550 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT IS PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUSTIN OR AT AUSTIN/BERGSTROM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO IS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JARRELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE FIRST TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANOR AT 615 PM THE SECOND TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR JARRELL AT 615 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... AUSTIN MANOR PFLUGERVILLE TAYLOR JARRELL 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. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 3021 9779 3008 9764 3067 9724 3087 9764
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, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 61 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.