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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 7:03 PM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 10 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
- Mar 19, 2002, 7:03 PM CST (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 M | San Antonio Intl Arp, TX | |
| Mar 19, 7:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, TX | High winds, causing spotty damage over the western third of Bexar County, and nearly continuous damage over the eastern two-thirds of the county, caused widespread destruction of trees and limbs. The high winds damaged roofs, propelled hail into homes and car |
| Mar 19, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Von Ormy, TX | Tornado number one, an F0 on the Fujita Scale, formed near 715 pm at the intersection of Greenwood Road and Gridley Road. It moved toward the southeast for one mile, then dissipated. The path width was 20 yards. It damaged roofs and walls of mobile homes an |
| Mar 19, 7:17 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Von Ormy, TX | Tornado number two, also an F0, formed near 717 pm at the intersection of Jarrett Road and Gridley Road. It also tracked toward the southeast, dissipating after one-half mile. Its path width was also estimated at 20 yards. It damaged roofs of mobile homes a |
| Mar 19, 7:17 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Von Ormy, TX | Tornado number three, an F1 on the Fujita Scale, also formed around 717 pm at the intersection of Ess Road and Jarrett Road. It moved toward the southeast, dissipating after one-half mile. Its path width was estimated at 20 yards. It destroyed a mobile home |
| Mar 19, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Von Ormy, TX | Tornado number four, another F1, formed 1 mile east of the intersection of Ess road and Jarrett Road around 719 pm. It moved toward the southeast, dissipating after one mile. Its path width was estimated at 50 yards. It struck three mobile homes that had be |
| Mar 19, 7:20 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Somerset, TX | Tornado number five, strongest of the six and rated as a minimal F2 tornado on the Fujita Scale, formed about 3.5 miles southwest of the intersection of Loop 1604 and I35. It struck near 720 pm along near Silver Street and Bravo Street and moved toward the no |
| Mar 19, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Somerset, TX | Tornado number six, struck just east of Somerset on SH16, about one mile north of Loop 1604. It was rated F1 on the Fujita Scale, and tracked toward the southeast. It damaged a large barn and several outbuildings at a construction site as it moved approximat |
| Mar 19, 7:30 PM CST | Hail 2 | San Antonio, TX | |
| Mar 19, 7:35 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | San Antonio, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 200103 TORSAT TXC029-200200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 702 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BEXAR * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 702 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HONDO... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE BEXAR COUNTY LINE AROUND 715 PM. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. STAY ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 6:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Travis | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.