Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 4:37 PM CDT for Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Guadalupe County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
920
WUUS54 KEWX 022137
SVRSAT
TXC187-022230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
437 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...
GUADALUPE
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 437 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF MARION...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
OVER GERONIMO AT 500 PM
5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEGUIN AT 510 PM
OVER KINGSBURY AT 520 PM
* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
MCQUEENEY
ZORN
GERONIMO
SEGUIN
KINGSBURY
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 2960 9824 2940 9786 2964 9767 2984 9790
2970 9804
$$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, 4:20 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, 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.