Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2016, 4:23 PM CDT for Bexar County, Comal County, Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 17, 2016, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX, Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 5:18 PM CDT | HAIL 0.7 | Fair Oaks Ranch, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 477 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.7
The text
As transmitted.
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WUUS54 KEWX 172123
SVREWX
TXC029-091-259-172215-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0073.160417T2123Z-160417T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
423 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BEXAR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
WEST CENTRAL COMAL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
SOUTHEASTERN KENDALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 422 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER FAIR OAKS
RANCH...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOERNE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. A
SECOND STORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF HELOTES IS ALSO MOVING NORTH AT
15 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SAN ANTONIO...BOERNE...HELOTES...FAIR OAKS RANCH...BULVERDE...SHAVANO
PARK...CROSS MOUNTAIN...BERGHEIM...THE DOMINION...WALNUT GROVE...
KENDALIA...GUADALUPE RIVER STATE PARK...KREUTZBERG...LEON SPRINGS...
SISTERDALE...TIMBERWOOD PARK...GREY FOREST...CASCADE CAVERNS...SPECHT
STORE AND FIESTA TEXAS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 2957 9853 2955 9874 2998 9878 2998 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 178DEG 15KT 2971 9863
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LJH1 follow-up statement
154
WWUS54 KEWX 172155
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
455 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2016
TXC029-091-259-172215-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-160417T2215Z/
BEXAR TX-COMAL TX-KENDALL TX-
455 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN BEXAR...WEST CENTRAL COMAL AND SOUTHEASTERN KENDALL
COUNTIES...
AT 455 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER FAIR OAKS
RANCH...OR NEAR BOERNE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOERNE...FAIR OAKS RANCH...WALNUT GROVE...KENDALIA...BERGHEIM...
KREUTZBERG...LEON SPRINGS...SISTERDALE...CROSS MOUNTAIN...CASCADE
CAVERNS...CROWN AND SCENIC OAKS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 2967 9857 2966 9875 2998 9877 2998 9848
TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 182DEG 21KT 2974 9867
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LJHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Apr 17, 6:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 64 min |
| Apr 17, 10:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 23 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 12:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 1:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 2:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Blanco | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 41 min |
| Apr 17, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 4 days |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 24 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 26 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 20 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 29 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 35 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 3 days |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 46 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gillespie | 50 min |
| Apr 17, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 22 min |
| Apr 17, 5:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Frio | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 5:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 34 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 58 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 36 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe | 32 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 59 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:27 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 4 days |
| Apr 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kendall | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Medina | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 31 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.