Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2006, 5:27 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 18, 2006, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 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), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KEWX 182228
SVREWX
TXC171-182315-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0040.060418T2227Z-060418T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
527 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GILLESPIE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
BASEBALL SIZE. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FREDERICKSBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHERN GILLESPIE COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT
RURAL NORTHEASTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE AND LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3050 9859 3023 9860 3023 9875 3024 9877
3024 9930 3050 9930
$$
GWWhat 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 Apr 18, 2:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 2:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 222 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 .DISCUSSION... RECORD HEAT AND THE DRY LINE MAY HAVE THE SIDE EFFECT OF SOME BRIEF BORDERLINE SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. LIFTED INDICES OF -6 RUNNING FROM DRT TO BURNET AND CAPE FROM 1500-2000 IN THE HILL COUNTRY AHEAD OF THE SLOWLY ADVANCING DRYLINE. CONVECTIVE INHIBITION IS STILL FAIRLY STRONG...BUT TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S ARE GETTING CLOSE TO BREAKING THE CAP. TCU NOTED ON LATEST VIS IMAGERY ALONG THE DRYLINE FROM JCT TO MASON. RIGHT NOW FEEL THAT CAP IS A BIT TOO STRONG FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF CELLS...BUT A FEW SHOULD BE ABLE TO POP THROUGH AND BRIEFLY GO SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. FRONT/DRYLINE PUSHES FURTHER INTO TEXAS ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE RETREATING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AS IT RETREATS...A VORT MAX SWEEPS THROUGH OVERHEAD. THIS WILL ADD LIFT AND SPARK SOME SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING IN VORTS DURING THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...BRINGING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE NOT YET GONE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH POPS AFTER THURSDAY ATTM UNTIL WE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY BREAK THIS DRY PATTERN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 65 89 66 86 / 10 10 40 30 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 65 89 66 87 / 10 10 40 30 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 69 93 70 87 / 10 10 40 30 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 65 90 68 83 / 10 10 40 30 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && STRAUB
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 12:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1206 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191100- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DE WITT- DIMMIT-EDWARDS-FAYETTE-FRIO-GILLESPIE-GONZALES-GUADALUPE-HAYS-KARNES- KENDALL-KERR-KINNEY-LAVACA-LEE-LLANO-MAVERICK-MEDINA-REAL-TRAVIS- UVALDE-VAL VERDE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-ZAVALA- 1206 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Llano | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Llano | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 62 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.