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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT for Medina County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Medina County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Utopia, TX | |
| Oct 12, 10:32 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 100 E | Hondo, TX | The damage at Hondo was due to the combination of a large tornado, severe downburst winds and large hail. The event was classic, as taught in the NWS Skywarn training program. Severe downburst winds (estimated in excess of 100 miles an hour), struck first, f |
| Oct 12, 10:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hondo, TX | |
| Oct 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Hondo, TX | The tornado was spotted as it touched down near 940 pm CST just northwest of the Hondo airport. It grew to nearly 500 yards in width and moved toward the southeast for 1.2 miles across the airport and over the National Guard Armory before dissipating near the |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Oct 12, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 3303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 22.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957
WFUS54 KEWX 130247
TORSAT
TXC325-463-130345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
945 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
MEDINA
UVALDE
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* AT 945 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS NEAR SABINAL...OR
ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF HONDO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT SABINAL.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
OVER DHANIS AT 1005 PM
OVER HONDO AT 1030 PM
LAT...LON 2936 9965 2923 9952 2923 9882 2953 9884
2963 9944The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 59 min |
| Oct 12, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Oct 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 57 min |
| Oct 12, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 67 min |
| Oct 12, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 55 min |
| Oct 12, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 63 min |
| Oct 12, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| Oct 12, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 48 min |
| Oct 12, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 62 min |
| Oct 12, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 50 min |
| Oct 12, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall | 38 min |
| Oct 12, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 64 min |
| Oct 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 46 min |
| Oct 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 63 min |
| Oct 12, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 30 min |
| Oct 12, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 46 min |
| Oct 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 60 min |
| Oct 12, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 71 min |
| Oct 12, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 65 min |
| Oct 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 49 min |
| Oct 12, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 59 min |
| Oct 12, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 65 min |
| Oct 12, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 65 min |
| Oct 12, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 56 min |
| Oct 12, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 47 min |
| Oct 12, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 69 min |
| Oct 12, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 62 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.