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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 14, 2006Gillespie County, Kerr County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2006, 4:14 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2006, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2006, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 4:38 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 Nw Kerrville, TX	HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.
May 14, 4:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	7 Ne Kerrville, TX	WALNUT TO PING PONG SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND ALONG HIGHWAY 16 NORTH OF KERRVILLE.
May 14, 4:51 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	10 N Kerrville, TX	HAIL SIZE UNKNOWN, BUT BREAKING WINDSHIELDS IN CARS.
May 14, 4:55 PM CDT	HAIL 1	5 Nw Kerrville, TX	HARD QUARTER SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 4 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 24 minutes after it went out.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 2963 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -400 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 142114
SVREWX
TXC171-265-142215-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0236.060514T2114Z-060514T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
414 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GILLESPIE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  KERR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KERRVILLE

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 406 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF KERRVILLE
  TO 13 MILES WEST OF HARPER.

* THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY
  RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3027 9973 2999 9962 2988 9895 3042 9903
      3027 9930

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 142145
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
443 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

TXC171-265-142215-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0236.000000T0000Z-060514T2215Z/
GILLESPIE TX-KERR TX-
443 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR KERR AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES...

AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER 
TO GOLF SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE 
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MOUNTAIN HOME TO 10 
MILES EAST OF KERRVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.  QUARTER SIZE HAIL 
HAS BEEN REPORTED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF KERRVILE AROUND 430 PM.  

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA BY 455 PM CDT
  INGRAM BY 500 PM CDT
  KERRVILLE AND KERRVILLE STATE PARK BY 505 PM CDT
  CENTER POINT AND HUNT BY 515 PM CDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT 
SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 

LAT...LON 3027 9973 2999 9962 2988 9895 3042 9903
      3027 9930

$$

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 May 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
308 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

.DISCUSSION...
SETTING UP FOR AN ACTIVE EVENING A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY
DRIFTS SOUTHWARD INTO THE HILL COUNTRY-NE CWA AND STORMS BACK-BUILD
WESTWARD. AMS OVER THE CWA CONTS TO DESTABILIZE ESPECIALLY OVER
THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS WHERE TEMPS HAVE
CLIMBED WELL INTO THE 90S UNDER FULL SUNSHINE. ALONG WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THERE WILL BE A THREAT
OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS THE BACK-BUILDING STORMS REDEVELOP AND
TRAIN SOUTHEAST THIS EVENING. CONSIDERED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR
THE NRN CWA THIS EVENING BUT FEEL HEAVY RAINS WILL BE MORE LOCALIZED
SO WILL ADD MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN RATHER THAN ISSUE A WATCH
FOR THE TIME BEING. THE CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE SHIFT TO THE WEST
AND SOUTHWEST TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY ENDING OVER ALL BUT THE
SOUTHWEST COUNTIES DURING THE AFTERNOON.

A COOLER DRIER NWLY FLOW TO PREVAIL THIS WEEK WITH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES
BELOW SEASONAL NORMS MUCH OF THE WORK WEEK WHILE MAX TEMPS WILL WARM
TO NEAR OR ABOVE NORMS STARTING TUESDAY. THE NWLY FLOW WEAKENS BY
LATE IN THE WEEK WITH A BROAD FLAT UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE
SOUTHWEST U.S.. A RETURN TO SLY LOW LEVEL WINDS BY LATE IN THE
WEEK WILL RETURN HIGHER HUMIDITIES TO THE REGION FOR THE WEEKEND
AND NOT EXPECTING MUCH MORE THAN ISOLATED AMS CONVECTION NOT WORTH
MENTIONING AT THIS TIME.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AUSTIN CAMP MABRY              62  80  55  89 / 60 10 0 0
AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT  62  77  50  85 / 60 10 0 0
DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT           66  76  60  87 / 70 50 -  0
SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT       64  77  56  86 / 60 30 -  0

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

01/25

Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 5:05 AM CDT, 11 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
505 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151015-
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-
GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-
FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT-
505 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME OF THE
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. A MINOR THREAT FOR TORNADOES EXISTS TODAY ALONG
SURFACE BOUNDARIES AND A COLD FRONT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS
POSSIBLE WHERE STORMS MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ON MONDAY. THE
MAIN THREAT IS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WHERE
STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
252 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0215 PM     HAIL             LLANO                   30.75N 98.67W
05/14/2006  E1.75 INCH       LLANO              TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

WR

Local storm report, May 14, 3:56 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
356 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0340 PM     HAIL             7 NNW FREDERICKSBURG    30.36N 98.92W
05/14/2006  M1.75 INCH       GILLESPIE          TX   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            REPORT RELAYED BY FREDERICKSBURG FD

&&

WR

Local storm report, May 14, 4:08 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
408 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0345 PM     TSTM WND DMG     7 W FLORENCE            30.84N 97.91W
05/14/2006                   BURNET             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ROOF TORN OFF OF HOUSE.

&&

WR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	64 min
May 14, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	55 min
May 14, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Williamson	61 min
May 14, 3:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Gillespie	2 hr
May 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	25 min
May 14, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	28 min
May 14, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	57 min
May 14, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	46 min
May 14, 5:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	3 hr
May 14, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Real	68 min
May 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	46 min
May 14, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	54 min
May 14, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera	118 min
May 14, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	54 min
May 14, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt	65 min
May 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	34 min
May 14, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	62 min
May 14, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	69 min
May 14, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes	55 min
May 14, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney	61 min
May 14, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Maverick	55 min
May 14, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Karnes	31 min
May 14, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.