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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2002, 4:43 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2002, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kinney County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 5:25 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Countywide, TX | As the supercell thunderstorm moved eastward from Val Verde County into Kinney County, hail continued to be reported. However, it was initially less widespread than it had been in Val Verde County. Stones at times were reported to be as large as tennis balls |
| Apr 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brackettville, TX | Severe thunderstorm winds spread across much of the the town, knocking down trees and blowing down numerous tree limbs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 1329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 072143 TORSAT TXC271-072245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 443 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KINNEY * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 443 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS OCCURING 16 MILES WEST OF BRACKETTVILLE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF DEL RIO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...ALONG HIGHWAY 90. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER BRACKETTVILLE AT 505 PM LAT...LON 2946 10069 2926 10075 2910 10029 2952 10022
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Apr 7, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 24 min |
| Apr 7, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 16 min |
| Apr 7, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Apr 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 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.