Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Issued

Jun 14, 2003, 11:57 PM CDT (04:57 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gillespie County, TX, Llano County, TX

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

982 
WUUS54 KEWX 150457
SVRSAT
TXC171-299-150600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1158 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  LLANO
  GILLESPIE

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1158 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENCHANTED ROCK STATE
  PARK...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LLANO...MOVING SOUTH AT 5
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  4 MILES WEST OF ENCHANTED ROCK STATE PARK AT 1225 AM

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FLASH FLOODING RAINS 
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


LAT...LON 3059 9883 3067 9890 3026 9910 3026 9879

$$

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 11:45 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1145 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

WILL SHOW FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT WITH 50 PERCENT POPS
OVER CWA.  BOUNDARY TO THE NORTH MOVING SOUTH...WITH CONTINUED
DESTABLIZATION.  WILL ALSO MENTION SOME TSRA POSSIBLY SEVERE.
KEPT CONTINUED CHC OF RAIN FOR SUNDAY...AS LOW ALOFT STAYS
IN VICINTIY OF AREA THRU THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK.  MORE
STABLE CONDTIONS EXPECTED IN THE MID TO LATE PART OF THE
WEEK.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AUS 065 087 066 087 5543
DRT 069 093 069 094 4332
SAT 068 087 067 087 5543

.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTY.
...SEVERE TSTM WATCH THRU 5 AM CDT...

8/11/DC

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
600 AM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS
NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS MORNING MOVING INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON.  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AS
A RESULT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...IF LOW LEVEL
CONDITIONS DESTABILIZE AGAIN. MAIN THREATS ARE FROM LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
OTHER STORMS MAY MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SUNDAY IN AN
INCREASINGLY NORTH FLOW ALOFT WITH MORE POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER
AND HEAVY RAINS.  ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR
MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.