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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 17, 2002Bandera County, Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2002, 4:55 PM CDT for Bandera County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 17, 2002, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bandera County, TX, Medina County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -526 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 172155
SVRSAT
TXC019-325-172300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
454 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  BANDERA
  MEDINA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A     
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF MEDINA KERRVILLE...MOVING     
  SOUTH TOWARDS TARPLEY AT 10 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE 
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.


LAT...LON 2983 9941 2931 9940 2929 9898 2981 9908

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, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	73 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, 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

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.