Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 4:24 AM CDT for Dimmit County, Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 10, 2003, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2003, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Zavala County, TX
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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 2129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 100924 SVRSAT TXC127-507-101030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 422 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... ZAVALA DIMMIT * UNTIL 530 AM CDT * AT 422 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LA PRYOR TO CRYSTAL CITY TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARRIZO SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS OF GREATER THAN 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER CRYSTAL CITY AT 430 AM CARRIZO SPRINGS AT 445 AM BIG WELLS AT 455 AM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... CRYSTAL CITY BIG WELLS CARRIZO SPRINGS HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS LOW WATER CROSSINGS... DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. LAT...LON 2899 10003 2823 10008 2822 9941 2900 9946 $$
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 10, 2:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 247 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 CONVECTION IS SLOWING DOWN. GENERAL TROUGHINESS ALOFT WILL GRADUALLY LIFT NORTHEAST TODAY. SO LOOKING AT SHOWER/TSTM ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE MOVING DEVELOPING EAST TODAY. ANOTHER UPPER LOW ON WATER VAPOR IS BEHIND THIS ONE BUT A LITTER FARTHER NORTH IN ITS TRACK AND MOVING SLOWER. SO BY TIME THIS ONE REACHES FAR WEST TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE ATMOS WILL HAVE RECOVERED AND A ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH DURING THE LATER AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SUBTLE S/W TROUGHS IN THE SOUTHERN STREAM WILL KEEP SOME CHANCE OF PRECIP OVER THE CWA THROUGH THE WEEK. ANOTHER TANDEM LOW IS DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH THE LEADING LOW REACHING THE WASHINGTON/IDAHO/OREGON BORDERS AROUND 06Z WEDNESDAY. A MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LOW DEVELOPS MIDWEEK AND DROPS A COLD FRONT SOUTH THROUGH TEXAS SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS FEATURE HAS BEEN CONSISTENT WITH MODEL-TO-MODEL RUNS SINCE LAST NIGHT. SO PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE WITH COOLER NIGHT AND OVERNIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. MIN TEMPS TRICKY AS THEY WILL BE RAIN DRIVEN. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 92 72 92 73 92 41342 DRT 96 76 96 76 96 22-43 SAT 93 74 92 74 92 41232 .EWX...NONE. 06/04
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 6:00 AM CDT, 22 hours 24 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-101100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1245 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 AM LAKE AMISTAD TX ESTIMATED 60-65 MPH
06/10/03 VAL VERDE TSTM WIND GUST
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
PMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 6:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 61 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.