Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2003, 7:06 AM CDT for Bastrop County, Caldwell 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
- Apr 24, 2003, 7:06 AM CDT (12:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2003, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 2198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
420 WUUS54 KEWX 241206 SVRSAT TXC021-055-241300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 706 AM CDT THU APR 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BASTROP CALDWELL * UNTIL 800 AM CDT * AT 706 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSANKY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF LOCKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSANKY AT 740 AM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BASTROP AT 800 AM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... ROSANKY BASTROP DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MCMAHON. 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 2985 9765 2972 9750 3006 9705 3027 9723 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 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.