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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 1, 2012Atascosa County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2012, 5:01 PM CDT for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
Jul 1, 2012, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2012, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Atascosa County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 301 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

432 
WUUS54 KEWX 012201
SVREWX
TXC013-012230-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0099.120701T2201Z-120701T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
501 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT.

* AT 500 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF CAMPBELLTON...OR 7
  MILES NORTH OF CHOKE CANYON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CHRISTINE AND SMITHSON
  VALLEY.

LAT...LON 2863 9835 2864 9846 2888 9865 2895 9826
      2874 9815 2862 9832 2862 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 164DEG 21KT 2860 9828

$$
1 follow-up statement
967 
WWUS54 KEWX 012214
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
514 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2012

TXC013-012230-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0099.000000T0000Z-120701T2230Z/
ATASCOSA TX-
514 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY...

AT 511 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
 THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF CAMPBELLTON...MOVING NORTH
AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE PEGGY...MCCOY...CHRISTINE
AND SMITHSON VALLEY.

LAT...LON 2863 9835 2864 9846 2888 9865 2895 9826
      2874 9815 2862 9832 2862 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 164DEG 21KT 2868 9831

$$

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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.