Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 2:38 PM CDT for Blanco County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blanco County, TX, Llano County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 262 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.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 021938 TORSAT TXC031-299-022030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 238 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... LLANO BLANCO * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 238 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HORSESHOE BAY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINGSLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORSESHOE BAY AT 255 PM LAT...LON 3071 9850 3059 9865 3040 9852 3042 9829 $$
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, 2:57 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, 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 |
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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.