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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 12, 2001Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2001, 10:44 PM CDT for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
Oct 12, 2001, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Medina County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 12, 11:30 PM CDTThunderstorm WindHondo, TXSevere 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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 12, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Oct 12, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3303 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

576 
WFUS54 KEWX 130340
TORSAT
TXC325-130430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1044 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  MEDINA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1042 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADOES OVER PARTS OF
  MEDINA COUNTY NORTH OF SABINAL...AND WEST TO NORTHWEST OF HONDO.
  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH.

  A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND EARLIER AT SABINAL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards59 min
Oct 12, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney64 min
Oct 12, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKinney57 min
Oct 12, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Real67 min
Oct 12, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde55 min
Oct 12, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr63 min
Oct 12, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXUvalde39 min
Oct 12, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco48 min
Oct 12, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr62 min
Oct 12, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney50 min
Oct 12, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXMedina, Uvalde60 min
Oct 12, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Kendall38 min
Oct 12, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie64 min
Oct 12, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet46 min
Oct 12, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays, Travis63 min
Oct 12, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall30 min
Oct 12, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde60 min
Oct 12, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar71 min
Oct 12, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano65 min
Oct 12, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal49 min
Oct 12, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson59 min
Oct 12, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell, Guadalupe65 min
Oct 12, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop65 min
Oct 12, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina56 min
Oct 12, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney47 min
Oct 12, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde69 min
Oct 12, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Comal62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.