Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT for Blanco County, Hays County, Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 2, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blanco County, TX, Hays County, TX, Travis County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 2172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 022030 SVRSAT TXC031-209-453-022130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 329 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... TRAVIS BLANCO HAYS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 329 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF LAKEWAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND HIGH WINDS. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKEWAY AT 345 PM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF DRIPPING SPRINGS AT 350 PM LAT...LON 3047 9820 3031 9832 3008 9809 3035 9792 $$
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 Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
325 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003
SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE OVER CENTRAL TEXAS MOVING SOUTHEAST WITH
DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN HILL COUNTRY. THIS
SHORT WAVE (AND RESULTING CONVECTION) SHOULD MOVE INTO NORTHEASTERN
AREAS BY LATE AFTERNOON AND PUSH OUT OF AREA BY LATE EVENING.
RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND BOUNDARIES LEFT FROM THIS ACTIVITY MAY BE
ENOUGH FOR WIDELY SCATTERED DEVELOPMENT TOMORROW AFTERNOON OVER
HILLS AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA...THOUGH UPPER DYNAMICS WEAK.
CONTINUED WEAKENING OF UPPER RIDGE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WILL
PROVIDE MORE FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
STORMS AS MOIST SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL GULF FLOW CONTINUES.
ANOTHER SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN U.S. PLAINS FRIDAY
WITH WEAK TROFFINESS OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND CONTINUED CHANCES FOR
RAIN. RESIDUAL MOISTURE MAY AGAIN HELP DEVELOP SHOWERS...STORMS OVER
THE WEEKEND WITH ACTIVITY TAPERING OFF BY NEXT MONDAY AS WESTERLIES
SET UP OVER AREA.
PRELIMS...
AUS BE 072/093 072/092 073 02322 0000/0000/0000
EEBBB 087/072 087/066 086/069 094/070 093 33233322220
DRT BE 077/095 075/094 075 02012 0000/0000/0000
EEBBB 093/074 091/069 090/073 097/074 096 22222222220
SAT BE 076/095 075/090 074 02322 0000/0000/0000
EEBBB 088/073 087/067 087/071 092/072 091 22233322220
.EWX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #462 FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS TIL 23Z.
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #464 FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS
OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TIL 01Z.Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 5:30 AM CDT, 10 hours before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-031100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 530 AM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...AND MOIST GULF AIR WILL BRING A SLIGHT RISK FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT AREA IS ALONG AND NORTHEAST OF TEXAS HIGHWAY 71...FROM LLANO TO AUSTIN TO LA GRANGE. THE MAIN SEVERE THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE PRIMARY THREAT TIME IS FROM 2 TO 7 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL BRING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. THERE IS AN OUTSIDE CHANCE A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...BUT NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Llano | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Llano | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 56 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.