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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2003, 11:24 AM CDT for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
- Jul 23, 2003, 11:24 AM CDT (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
998 WUUS54 KEWX 231624 SVRSAT TXC287-231715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1122 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... LEE * UNTIL 1215 PM CDT * AT 1122 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF CALDWELL...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES WEST OF DIME BOX AT 1150 AM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GIDDINGS AT 1215 PM LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE 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. LAT...LON 3041 9718 3011 9697 3027 9673 3052 9697 $$
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 Jul 23, 11:15 AM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 11:15 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1115 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 OUTFLOW BNDRY FROM NORTH AND NORTHEAST EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THE NORTH AND EAST PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...CAUSING CHC OF SHRA AND TSRA. WILL CONT WITH TREND FROM EARLY MORNING PACKAGE. THURSDAY WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES TO SHOW HIGH ALOFT BUILDING OVER AREA FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST...WITH SOME MARGINAL INSTABILITY OVER THE EAST PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. WILL CONT TO SHOW A SLGT CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THURSDAY. 08/01/WR PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... NEW MESO ETA INDICATES WEAK FRONT WILL REMAIN NORTH OF CWA AND THEN DISSIPATE. FOCUS FOR PRECIP WILL BE MCS AND ATTENDANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MOVING DOWN FROM NE TEXAS. WILL MAINTAIN POPS AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. MESO ETA AND GFS HAVE WEAK FRONT SAGGING SOUTH INTO NE CWA BY NOON AND INTO CENTRAL ZONES BY LATE AFTERNOON. FRONT BECOMES DIFFUSE TONIGHT. WILL GO WITH SPC OUTLOOK AND INCLUDE SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EAST AND CENTRAL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH DOWN BURST WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. POPS LIMITED TO SEA BREEZE ACTIVITY MAINLY SE THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. TEMPS A BIT COOLER MAINLY NORTH NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH VALUES CLOSE TO MAV GUIDANCE. BACK TO NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS FRIDAY. PRELIMS... AUS 093 069 095 070 3100 DRT 097 074 098 076 1200 SAT 092 073 094 074 3100 .EWX...NONE. 3/6
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 5:22 AM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-241100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 522 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE THREAT AREA IS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CUERO TO SAN ANTONIO TO LBJ STATE PARK TO GRANGER LAKE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 40 min |
| Jul 23, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 57 min |
| Jul 23, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 66 min |
| Jul 23, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 57 min |
| Jul 23, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 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.