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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

February 5, 2004Gillespie County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 2004, 12:44 AM CST for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Feb 5, 2004, 12:44 AM CST (06:44 UTC)
Expired
Feb 5, 2004, 1:15 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gillespie County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:43 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 4, 9:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-02-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-02-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

517 
WUUS54 KEWX 050644
SVRSAT
TXC171-050715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1244 AM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  GILLESPIE

* UNTIL 115 AM CST

* AT 1244 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF HARPER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES    
  NORTHWEST OF KERRVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FREDERICKSBURG AT 105 AM
  7 MILES WEST OF WILLOW CITY AT 115 AM

 THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IS HAIL. 



LAT...LON 3048 9926 3016 9928 3015 9862 3049 9870

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 4, 9:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie28 min
Feb 4, 9:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano35 min
Feb 5, 2:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal33 min
Feb 5, 3:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales, Wilson36 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.