Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Issued

Jun 15, 2003, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gillespie County, TX

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:02 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.

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.

061 
WUUS54 KEWX 150559
SVRSAT
TXC171-150700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1258 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 1258 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A    
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF HARPER TO WILLOW         
  CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
  WILLOW CITY
  HARPER
  FREDERICKSBURG
  LBJ STATE PARK
  LUCKENBACH

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS LOW WATER CROSSINGS...
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND
RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD
WATERS.


LAT...LON 3050 9930 3049 9861 3016 9861 3016 9930

$$

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, 1 hour 14 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.