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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 7, 2002Wilson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2002, 9:18 PM CDT for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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
Apr 7, 9:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Floresville, 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
Apr 7, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2444 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 080218
TORSAT
TXC493-080315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
918 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...
  WILSON

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 918 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME 13 MILES WEST OF FLORESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER FLORESVILLE AT 940 PM
  3 MILES NORTH OF POTH AT 945 PM

* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
  FLORESVILLE
  POTH


LAT...LON 2911 9839 2894 9823 2919 9790 2932 9814

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	57 min
Apr 7, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Medina	66 min
Apr 7, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Frio	54 min
Apr 7, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Medina	31 min
Apr 7, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	46 min
Apr 7, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Frio	61 min
Apr 7, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	24 min
Apr 7, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Atascosa	65 min
Apr 7, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	59 min
Apr 7, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	60 min
Apr 7, 10:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Frio	3 hr
Apr 7, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	59 min
Apr 7, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	53 min
Apr 7, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	65 min
Apr 7, 11:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa	6 hr
Apr 7, 11:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Wilson	6 hr
Apr 7, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	46 min
Apr 7, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	38 min
Apr 7, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	46 min
Apr 8, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	54 min
Apr 8, 12:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Atascosa	62 min
Apr 8, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	37 min
Apr 8, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina, Uvalde, Zavala	59 min
Apr 8, 12:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Frio	36 min
Apr 8, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kendall	50 min
Apr 8, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	45 min
Apr 8, 1:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio, Medina	55 min
Apr 8, 1:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina	111 min
Apr 8, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	60 min
Apr 8, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	40 min
Apr 8, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	40 min
Apr 8, 2:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe	3 hr
Apr 8, 2:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	47 min
Apr 8, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	59 min
Apr 8, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	51 min
Apr 8, 3:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell	2 hr
Apr 8, 3:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina	2 hr
Apr 8, 3:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina	117 min
Apr 8, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	41 min
Apr 8, 4:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa	4 hr
Apr 8, 4:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe	2 hr

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.