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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 3, 2003Atascosa County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 4:36 PM CDT for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 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), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.

168 
WFUS54 KEWX 032136
TORSAT
TXC013-032200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
433 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...
  ATASCOSA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 433 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...OVER PARTS OF ATASCOSA COUNTY.
SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ATASCOSA COUNTY CAN PRODUCE 
TORNADOES.

THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO WEST OF POTEET AROUND 425 PM...
OVER AN OPEN FIELD...MOVING SOUTH. 

STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND 
OCCASIONAL DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER PARTS OF ATACOSA COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM. 

LAT...LON 2871 9873 2871 9837 2901 9847 2901 9872

$$

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, 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, 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.