Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2003, 6:47 PM CDT for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 13, 2003, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Medina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 3986 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 132347 SVRSAT TXC325-140045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 647 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... MEDINA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 647 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF DHANIS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HONDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... DHANIS HONDO CASTROVILLE RIO MEDINA MICO 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 2958 9939 2911 9939 2912 9883 2954 9884 $$
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 Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 255 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUT SOON... POTENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER NORTHERN MEXICO APPROACHING RAPIDLY AND IS THE MAIN INGREDIENT FOR INCREASED POPS TONIGHT...WHICH WILL INCREASE FROM SOUTH TO NORTH WITH 100 PERCENT POPS FOR THE AUSTIN METRO AND COUNTIES NORTH. MORE CONVECTION CURRENTLY FIRING OVER WESTERN VAL VERDE AND ALONG THE SIERRA MADRES WILL MOVE EAST WITH TIME AND BRING HEAVY RAIN TO AREAS THAT ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING. WITH PWS 120-150 PERCENT OF NORMAL...WILL GO AHEAD AND PULL THE TRIGGER ON A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. WILL HAVE FFA OUT SHORTLY. SEVERE THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ON THE INCREASE AS WELL...WILL BE HANDLED BY A WATCH DUE OUT SHORTLY...MAINLY FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. CLUSTER MOVING EAST ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WILL BE MOVING INTO A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH CAPES OF 3500-5000 AND STRONG LOW LEVEL INFLOW. WILL MAKE A MESS DURING RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST FOR MONDAY THRU WEDNESDAY...WITH A TREND TOWARD CLIMO THEREAFTER. 11/03 PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 094/075 092/070 090 36433 DRT 096/074 096/075 094 26233 SAT 094/076 094/074 092 25433 .EWX...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 6:00 AM CDT, 12 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...MAINLY VAL VERDE...EDWARDS AND KINNEY COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON ALONG A DRY LINE OVER WEST TEXAS AND SPREAD RAPIDLY EASTWARD. A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS EXISTS THIS EVENING THROUGHOUT ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AS A VIGOROUS UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. THIS INCLUDES THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METRO AREAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR ALONG WITH A FEW TORNADOES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:49 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
549 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0503 PM DEL RIO TX FLASH FLOODS
06/13/03 VAL VERDE LOW WATER CROSSINGS
CLOSED
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0520 PM BARTLETT TX 65 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/13/03 WILLIAMSON TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0525 PM MOPAC TX WIND DAMAGE
06/13/03 TRAVIS PHONE POLES DOWN
REPORTED
BY SPOTTERS
0559 PM AUSTIN AIRPORT TX .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/03 TRAVIS REPORTED BY
ASOS
VL/DCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 118 min |
| Jun 13, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 73 min |
| Jun 13, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Hays and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 54 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.