1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Oct 12, 8:04 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 904 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 SEVERE STORMS ONGOING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EWX CWA AND MUCH MORE EXPECTED. SPEED MAX STILL WEST OF UPPER TROUGH OVER ALONG TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER INTO THE BIG BEND AND APPEARS WILL ROUND THE BASE AROUND OR JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. GOOD SHEAR...DIFFLUENCE AND CAPES MAINTAIN SEVERE MENTIONS OVERNIGHT. ONLY UPDATES WILL BE MAINLY FOR THE HIGHLIGHTS AND POSSIBLY SOME TWEAKING OF VARIABLES. 04/06/08/PM PERVIOUS DISCUSSION... AREA LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK FOR SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS. STORMS SHOULD BEGIN OUT WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING AND INTENSIFY AS THEY ENCOUNTER LOW LEVEL JET OVER HILL COUNTRY INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. BY LATE EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ALIGN THEMSELVES IN SQUALL LINE FASHION ALONG EASTERN (NORTH SOUTH ORIENTED) ESCARPMENT...MOVING EAST RAPIDLY...WITH TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLY ACCOMPANYING STORMS. INTENSITY OF LOW SHOULD ALLOW FOR GOOD WRAP AROUND CLOUDINESS THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY ACROSS EASTERN ZONES...WITH WESTERN ZONES CLEARING RAPIDLY TOMMORROW MORNING. WIDESPREAD LIGHT TO MODERATE PRECIPITATION WITH SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION POSSIBLE AFTER FRONT PASSES LATE TONIGHT AND THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH ABOUT LATE MORNING. MUCH COLDER AIRMASS WILL BUILD ACROSS AREA SATURDAY NIGHT WITH LOWS DIPPING INTO THE UPPER 30S OVER THE NORTHERN HILLS...40S ELSEWHERE. SUNDAY LOOKS LIKE ABUNDANT SUNSHINE WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S TO NEAR 80. A BEAUTIFUL WEEK IS IN STORE NEXT WEEK WITH ANOTHER SURGE OF COLDER AIR MOVING ACROSS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. SKIES SHOULD REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH NORTHWEST TO WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE 40S DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE WORK WEEK...WARMING INTO THE 50S IN THE LATTER HALF. HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE 70S MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WARMING INTO THE 80S WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 62/69/44/77 8700 DRT 57/75/46/80 4100 SAT 62/73/42/78 8400 .EWX...NONE. 02/18
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
947 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM DEL RIO TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0945 PM 5 N SABINAL TX TORNADO
10/12/01 UVALDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1003 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM DEL RIO TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0945 PM 5 N SABINAL TX TORNADO
10/12/01 UVALDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERS
0950 PM STONEWALL TX TORNADO
10/12/01 GILLESPIE SEMI-TRACTOR
TRAILERS OVER TURNED OVERTURNED
REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGERS
PMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorms, striking again well after the previous tornadoes and downbursts, knocked out power to homes in the Hondo area and caused damage to roofs and carports around the town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 2001
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5269729, 5269730.