2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 24, 5:11 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 611 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM... NO OTHER CHANGES AS ONGOING FORECAST ON TRACK. 04/06/JB PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT NOW PUSHING INTO THE COUNTY WARNING AND FORECAST AREA WITH FALLING DEWPOINTS OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. THEREFORE, THE CHANCE OF RAIN OVER THE AUSTIN AREA APPEARS LESS THAN PREVIOUSLY ASSESSED. WILL KEEP POPS IN THE 10 TO 20 RANGE ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS. WITH NO SIGNIFICANT BUILDUPS NEAR THE AREA, AM LEANING TOWARD SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ALL OTHER AREAS EXCEPT SOUTHEAST. ONCE THUNDERSTORMS BEGIN, SOME ENHANCEMENT IS POSSIBLE AS AN UPSTREAM SHORTWAVE APPROACHES. TOMORROW, ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENT SHOULD UNFOLD AS THE AREA WILL FIND ITSELF IN THE ENTRANCE REGION OF AN UPPER JET WHILE WEAK SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES PASS DOWN IN NW FLOW. 12Z MODEL RUNS CONTINUE THE TREND OF A WEAKER COLD FRONT AND EARLIER RETREAT OF THE FRONTAL ZONE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. WILL TAKE AN AVN/ETA MIX TO END THE CHANCE OF RAIN AFTER SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE UPPER RIDGE TAKING HOLD SUNDAY. ON TEMPS, WILL FAVOR COOLER PREVIOUS FORECAST NUMBERS OVER MODEL GUIDANCE WHICH APPEARS TOO WARM AT NIGHT. THE EXTENDED FORECAST WILL BE LEFT MUCH THE SAME AS MODEL CONSENSUS KEEPS AN UPPER RIDGE OVER SOUTH TX. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 60/83/62/88 2d333 DRT 69/94/70/97 2331 SAT 65/85/66/89 2332 .EWX...NONE. 18/2/23
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-250000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 211 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS OUTLOOK APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC COUNTIES... ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL... COMAL...DEWITT...DIMMIT...EDWARDS...FAYETTE...FRIO...GILLESPIE... GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES...KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY... LAVACA...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE... VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON AND ZAVALA. THE COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...STRONG UPPER LEVEL INSTABILITY...AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE FOR DAMAGING DOWNBURSTS WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HOWEVER ISOLATED SUPER-CELL THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE COLD FRONT WITH TORNADOES POSSIBLE. SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. && FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND...SAN ANGELO...FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORyPUS CHRISTI.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The small and short-lived tornado was observed by sheriff's deputies as it touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was indicated.
Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines between Barksdale in Edwards County and Camp Wood in Real County.Real County
Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines between Barksdale in Edwards County and Camp Wood in Real County.Real County
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5243722, 5243723, 5243724.