Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT for Bexar County, Comal County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
010 WUUS54 KEWX 140030 SVRSAT TXC029-091-187-140130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 730 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... COMAL GUADALUPE BEXAR * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 730 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GARDEN RIDGE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... GARDEN RIDGE SMITHSON VALLEY CANYON LAKE DAM 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 2965 9877 2921 9848 2966 9788 2996 9834 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 71 min |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.