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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 4:20 PM CDT for Bexar County, Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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.
964
WUUS54 KEWX 022120
SVRSAT
TXC029-091-022215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
418 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...
COMAL
BEXAR
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 418 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIR OAKS RANCH...OR
ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF BOERNE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
OVER FAIR OAKS RANCH AT 505 PM
OVER SCENIC OAKS AT 510 PM
3 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOMINION AT 515 PM
THIS SEVERE STORM COMPLEX PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN KENDALL COUNTY.
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 2952 9873 2972 9878 2975 9864 2981 9857
2962 9846
$$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, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis | 60 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
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.