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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 3, 2003Atascosa County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2003, 3:51 PM CDT for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Atascosa County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2500 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 032051
SVRSAT
TXC013-032200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
348 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...
  ATASCOSA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 348 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS 
OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...BEGINNING TO FORM OVER NORTHERN
ATASCOSA COUNTY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL 
CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS ATASCOSA COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR.

STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND OCCASIONAL
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS 
OF ATASCOSA COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR.

LAT...LON 2875 9872 2874 9833 2900 9836 2908 9874

$$

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, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	65 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, 3:56 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.