Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2023

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 3, 2023Blanco County, Gillespie County, Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2023, 7:09 PM CDT for Blanco County, Gillespie County, Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2023, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2023, 7:52 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Blanco County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 2196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 3, 6:44 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:44 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 1:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
148 PM CDT Sat Jun 3 2023

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-041900-
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-
148 PM CDT Sat Jun 3 2023

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas..

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

There is a Level 1 out of 5 risk for severe storms across
portions of the Rio Grande Plains, southern Edwards Plateau, Hill
Country and I-35 corridor late this afternoon and tonight. A level
2 risk in in place for the Winter Garden region near Maverick
County. Any severe storms that form will be capable of producing
damaging wind gusts and large hail. In addition, locally heavy
rainfall is possible with these storms. There is a Level 1 out of
4 risk for excessive rainfall that could lead to flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

A few storms could produce heavy rainfall Sunday through Tuesday.
There is a Level 1 out of 4 risk for excessive rainfall that
could lead to flooding during this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:23 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Zavala	58 min
Jun 3, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	35 min
Jun 3, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet	32 min
Jun 3, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco, Hays, Williamson	35 min
Jun 3, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis, Williamson	47 min
Jun 3, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	42 min
Jun 3, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	42 min
Jun 3, 9:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette	49 min
Jun 3, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	61 min
Jun 3, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette	58 min
Jun 3, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney, Uvalde	40 min
Jun 3, 9:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette	39 min
Jun 3, 9:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Frio, Uvalde, Zavala	95 min
Jun 3, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca, Lee	58 min
Jun 3, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette	3 hr
Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	39 min
Jun 3, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lee	30 min
Jun 3, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Wilson	50 min
Jun 3, 11:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 4, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	43 min
Jun 4, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	46 min
Jun 4, 1:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	111 min
Jun 4, 1:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Guadalupe	28 min
Jun 4, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	29 min
Jun 4, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Llano	38 min
Jun 4, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	29 min
Jun 4, 3:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	2 hr
Jun 4, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	29 min
Jun 4, 4:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie	19 min
Jun 4, 4:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Gillespie	3 hr
Jun 4, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	49 min
Jun 4, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	40 min
Jun 4, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	26 min
Jun 4, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	38 min
Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Uvalde	3 hr
Jun 4, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina, Uvalde	33 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Medina	63 min
Jun 4, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina, Uvalde	11 min
Jun 4, 3:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Medina, Uvalde	3 hr
Jun 4, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette	65 min
Jun 4, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	47 min
Jun 4, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina	41 min
Jun 4, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	43 min
Jun 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina	45 min
Jun 4, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	39 min
Jun 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Real, Uvalde	3 hr
Jun 4, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	56 min
Jun 4, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	51 min
Jun 4, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	45 min
Jun 4, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	38 min
Jun 4, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2023 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2023

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.