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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 15, 2002DeWitt County, Karnes County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 6:14 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
Jun 15, 2002, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties DeWitt County, TX, Karnes County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 356 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 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 152314
SVRSAT
TXC123-255-160015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
614 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  DEWITT
  KARNES

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 614 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RUNGE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF KARNES
  CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RUNGE AT 625 PM

* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
  RUNGE


LAT...LON 2887 9812 2869 9781 2892 9748 2920 9774

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.