Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2003, 5:01 PM CST for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Mar 25, 2003, 5:01 PM CST (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2003, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
820 WUUS54 KEWX 252301 SVRSAT TXC259-260000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 501 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KENDALL * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 501 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SISTERDALE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF COMFORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 8 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO NOTED WHICH MAY IMPACT LOW WATER CROSSINGS. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SISTERDALE AT 515 PM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENDALIA AT 555 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... SISTERDALE KENDALIA 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 3006 9893 2993 9877 2996 9849 3014 9864 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 62 min |
| Mar 25, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 5:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 53 min |
| Mar 25, 5:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 54 min |
| Mar 25, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.