Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2003, 4:51 PM CDT for Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kinney County, TX, Uvalde 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 3092 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 232151 SVRSAT TXC271-463-232245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 449 PM 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... UVALDE KINNEY * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 449 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...OVER PARTS OF UVALDE AND KINNEY COUNTIES...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG WINDS...UP TO AND GREATER THAN 60 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND INTENSE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF UVALDE AND KINNEY COUNTIES THROUGH 545 PM. LAT...LON 2951 10057 2920 10066 2919 9947 2955 9958 $$
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, 4:25 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 4:25 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 425 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 OUTFLOW BNDRY EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING S AND SW ACROSS SOUTH CNTRL TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND IN THE EVENING HOURS HAS POTENTIAL TO TRIGGER SCT SHRA/TSRA THRU THE EVE HOURS. WILL SHOW CHC OF SHRA/TSRA IN THE EVE OVR PARTS OF S CNTRL TX...WITH LIMITED TO NIL CHC OF SHRA OVER FAR NE PART OF CWA...OR PARTS OF CNTRL TX...IN WAKE OF BOUNDARY. FURTHER WEST TOWARD RIO GRANDE WILL KEEP CHC OF SHRA THRU 12Z. THE THURSDAY WEATHER PATTERN SHOWS MORE STABLE CONDITIONS OVER MOST OF S CNTRL TX...EXCPET FOR THE SE PART OF THE AREA...WHERE SOME MARGINAL INSTABILITY LINGERS...AND IN THE LATE AFTN TO EARLY EVENING ALONG RIO GRANDE...WHERE MONSOON SUMMER AFFECTS TO THE WEST MAY DRIFT FAR ENOUGH EAST. FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...AVERAGE OF FCSTS IN TIME SHOW RIDGE ALOFT GETTING STRONGER OVER S CNTRL TX...EXCEPT FOR EAST TO SE PART OF THE AREA WHERE SLGT CHC OF SHRA LINGERS. ON SUNDAY...MEDIUM RANGE FORECASTS CONT TO SHOW WEAKNESS IN HEIGHT FIELD VCNTY 700 TO 300 HPA EVOLVING OVER EAST HALF OF CWA...AS SUBTLE WX SYS ALOFT PASSES TO THE SOUTH AND THEN SW OF CWA. THIS PATTERN LINGERS INTO MONDAY...SO WILL SHOW SLGT CHC OF SHRA OVER EAST HALF OF AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE TUESDAY FORECASTS SHOW MODERATE LATE JULY RIDGE ALOFT OVER THE AREA...THAT CONTINUES ON WEDNESDAY...WITH SIGNS OF WEAKENING POSSIBLY FROM THE EAST AND NORTHEAST. COMPOSITE FORECATS IN TIME SHOW LIMITING CHC OF RAIN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...SO FOR NOW WILL LEAVE OUT CHC OF RAIN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...EXCPET FOR FAR SE PART OF CWA ON WEDNESDAY...WHERE SOME SEABREEZE/MESO SCALE INTERACTIONS MAY CAUSE ISOLD SHRA. AFTN HIGHS CONTINUE TO LOOK LIMITING FOR A LATE JULY SETTING SO WILL ADJUST THEM TO FIT THE JULY 2003 WEATHER PATTERNS. PRELIMS... AUS 070 095 072 096 072 00000 DRT 073 095 076 097 078 31200 SAT 073 091 075 092 076 10000 .EWX...NONE. 08/01/13/PM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 2:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-241100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 215 PM 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 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THREAT AREA IS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PLEASANTON TO SAN ANTONIO TO BURNET. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 23, 2:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
246 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM 2 W BLANCO TX TSTM WIND GUST
07/23/03 BLANCO NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS DOWN
AND A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF OF
A BARN ON FM1888 REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
PMLocal storm report, Jul 23, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
246 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM 2 W BLANCO TX TSTM WIND GUSTS
07/23/03 BLANCO NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS DOWN
AND A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF OF
A BARN ON FM1888 REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0245 PM WARING TX TSTM WIND GUSTS
07/23/03 KENDALL NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
SEVERAL OF THEM ON A CAR
WITH A POSSIBLE INJURY
REPORTED BY SHERIFF
PMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 51 min |
| 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 |
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.