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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 3:58 PM CDT for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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 3, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
235 WFUS54 KEWX 032058 TORSAT TXC493-032200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 357 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... WILSON * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 357 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLORESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... FLORESVILLE POTH IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2912 9839 2891 9818 2923 9777 2934 9813 $$
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, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 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.