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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 1, 1999, 7:03 PM CST for Guadalupe County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 1999, 7:03 PM CST (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 1999, 8:05 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Guadalupe County, TX, Wilson County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Stockdale, TX | |
| Jan 1, 7:21 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Seguin, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 020103 RRA TORSAT TXC187-493-020205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 703 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GUADALUPE IN TEXAS NORTHERN WILSON IN TEXAS * UNTIL 805 PM CST * AT 700 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NORTH OF STOCKDALE... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NORTHEAST WILSON AND SOUTHWEST GUADUALUPE AT THIS TIME IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JDS DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNAD:O. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BE MINDFUL OF RISING WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis, Williamson | 75 min |
| Jan 1, 6:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 47 min |
| Jan 1, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 93 min |
| Jan 1, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 61 min |
| Jan 1, 7:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 63 min |
| Jan 1, 8:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 2 hr |
| Jan 1, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 89 min |
| Jan 1, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 65 min |
| Jan 1, 9:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 61 min |
| Jan 1, 9:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 10:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 92 min |
| Jan 1, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 92 min |
| Jan 1, 11:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 119 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.