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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 9, 2002Edwards County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2002, 8:24 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2002, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Edwards County, TX

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3638 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

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

299 
WUUS54 KEWX 100124 CCA
SVRSAT
TXC137-100200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION TO TIMING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
757 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  EDWARDS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 757 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EDWARDS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 35 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF DEL RIO...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
 30 MILE WEST OF ROCKSPRINGS AT 9 PM

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.


LAT...LON 2968 10068 2975 10044 3015 10033 3014 10066

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 9, 8:15 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 8:15 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
815 PM CDT THU MAY 9TH 2002

SYNOPSIS...HIGHLY VOLATILE ATMOSPHERE IS IN PLACE ACROSS PORTIONS OF
THE COUNTY WARNING AREA.LATEST SOUNDING OUT OF DEL RIO SHOWS A
DEFINITIVE VEERING WIND TO 700 MB, TRAPPING DEEP MOISTURE IN THE
LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. IT APPEARS DEL RIO HAS REACHED
CONVECTIVE TEMP OF 94, HENCE, STORM DEVELOPMENT. CURRENT
INFRARED/WATER VAPOR ANALYSIS PINPOINTS A STATIONARY FRONT LOCATED
FROM PANDALE EAST TO BURNET AND TO THE NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN. THIS
SURFACE FRONT IS CREATING A BATTLE ZONE BETWEEN WARM MOIST AIR TO
THE SOUTH AND COOL DRY AIR TO THE NORTH. AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE
CONTINUES ITS PROGRESSION OFF TO THE EAST. THE COMBINATION OF
VORTICITY ADVECTION ALOFT AND ISENTROPIC LIFT AT THE SURFACE WILL
TOUCH OFF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL
REACH SEVERE CRITERIA. CURRENT RADAR SHOWS ACTION FIRING AHEAD OF
THE SHORTWAVE OVER VAL VERDE AND EDWARDS COUNTIES MOVING OFF TO THE
EAST.  CURRENT OVERLAY OF CONVECTIVE ENERGY/CONVECTIVE INHIBITION
SHOWS MOST UNSTABLE THREAT TO BE ACROSS DEL RIO, EAGLE PASS, HILL
COUNTRY AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INTO TONIGHT. WITH
THERMAL HEATING WINDING DOWN, WELL LIGHTEN POPS SLIGHTLY FOR THE
OVERNIGHT...BUT KEEP IN POSSIBLY SEVERE FOR SURE.

23/02/06

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	53 min
May 9, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	63 min
May 9, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	33 min
May 9, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	62 min
May 9, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	53 min
May 9, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	55 min
May 9, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	52 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.