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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 7:58 PM CST for Dimmit County, Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2002, 7:58 PM CST (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Maverick County, TX
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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 266 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 200158 TORSAT TXC127-323-200300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 757 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... MAVERICK DIMMIT * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 757 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARRIZO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 6 MILES SOUTH OF ASHERTON AT 820 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... ASHERTON LAT...LON 2837 10034 2818 10014 2822 9945 2863 9953
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, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 57 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.