Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2003, 4:13 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Aug 11, 2003, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeWitt County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 112113 SVRSAT TXC123-112215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 412 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... DEWITT * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 412 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOCHHEIM...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SHINER...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES EAST OF HOCHHEIM AT 420 PM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CUERO AT 515 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... HOCHHEIM CUERO IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 2903 9770 2889 9753 2914 9707 2937 9724 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 52 min |
| Aug 11, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.