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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 16, 2002Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2002, 10:32 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 73 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 16, 2002, 10:32 PM CDT (03:32 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Val Verde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 2222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 170332
SVRSAT
TXC465-170445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1026 PM CDT THU MAY 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  VAL VERDE

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1026 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN VAL VERDE COUNTY FROM 40 MILES SOUTH OF 
SONORA TO 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO...  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 
MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AT A COMSTOCK TO LOMA ALTA LINE BY 11 
PM.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN 
A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS TO RISE AND 
FLOOD LOW WATER CROSSINGS...ESPECIALLY ALONG FARM ROAD 1024 AND 
HIGHWAYS 163 AND 277. 


LAT...LON 3013 10093 2978 10142 2953 10107 2975 10070

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	46 min
May 16, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	37 min
May 16, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	63 min
May 17, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	57 min
May 17, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe, Wilson	58 min
May 17, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	64 min
May 17, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	59 min
May 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	2 hr
May 17, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	65 min
May 17, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kerr, Real	62 min
May 17, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	67 min
May 17, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	109 min
May 17, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	58 min
May 17, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.