Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2003, 1:25 PM CDT for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 3, 2003, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 3, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
029 WUUS54 KEWX 031825 SVRSAT TXC259-031930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 123 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KENDALL * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 123 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER KENDALL COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WILL CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF KENDALL COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. LAT...LON 2981 9882 2984 9866 3002 9853 3007 9885 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 2:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 28 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.