Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2003, 7:31 PM CDT for DeWitt 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
- Oct 25, 2003, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 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), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2967 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 260031 SVRSAT TXC123-260130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 731 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... DEWITT * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 731 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DEWITT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CUERO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 2921 9734 2909 9719 2865 9703 2890 9681 $$
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 Oct 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 325 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003 PRE-FRONTAL WIND SHIFT (DRYLINE) IS PROGRESSING SOUTH INTO THE HILL COUNTRY...WITH THE COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED COLD AIR ADVECTION FURTHER NORTH...JUST NOW PASSING THROUGH ABILENE AND DFW. PRECIP CHANCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT ARE NIL ACROSS THE NW THIRD OF CWA EWX...AND INCREASE TO NEAR 80 PERCENT ACROSS PORTIONS OF LAVACA...DEWITT AND FAYETTE COUNTIES. THE FRONT WILL DRIVE THE FOCUS FOR PRECIP SOUTH TOWARD THE COAST OVERNIGHT AND SUN MORNING...WITH NO CHANCE FOR RAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF CWA EWX SUNDAY. MAX TEMPS WILL BE WELL BELOW NORMAL TOMORROW...GIVEN CLOUDS AND COLD AIR ADVECTION. AM EXPECTING MONDAY MORNING TO BE THE COLDEST OF THE NEXT 7...WITH NEAR-IDEAL RADIATIONAL COOLING. COULD SEE 10 DEGREE MIN TEMP DIFFERENCES ACROSS SOME OF OUR HILL COUNTRY COUNTIES ON MON AND TUE MORNING. THE OVERALL SYNOPTIC PATTERN WILL FLIP-FLOP FROM A RIDGE IN THE WEST-TROUGH IN THE EAST ON MONDAY TO A BIG TROUGH IN THE WEST AND A RIDGE IN THE SE BY FRI/SAT. SO...AM EXPECTING DRY WX FROM MONDAY THROUGH FRI...THEN ANOTHER COLD FRONT AND SOME PRECIP BY NEXT SAT. ONE MORE THING...WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE ISSUING A WIND ADVISORY GIVEN AVAILABLE MODEL GUIDANCE AND OBSERVED WINDS CURRENTLY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. PRELIMS... AUS 051/066/039/071 45 30000 DRT 051/065/044/076 48 00000 SAT 052/066/044/073 49 30000 11/1/23 .EWX...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 25, 6:00 AM CDT, 13 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-261100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY DENSE FOG ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WILL DISSIPATE AROUND MID MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
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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.