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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 8, 2002Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 8, 2002, 11:56 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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: Oct 8, 2002, 11:56 AM CDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2002, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Uvalde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

872 
WFUS54 KEWX 081656
TORSAT
TXC463-081745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1153 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1153 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 3 MILES
  WEST OF UVALDE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  UVALDE
  KNIPPA
  LOCATIONS ALONG U.S HIGHWAYS 83 AND 90 NEAR UVALDE

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.

LAT...LON 2921 9994 2908 9980 2938 9940 2956 9960

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr	111 min
Oct 7, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
Oct 8, 12:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	5 hr
Oct 8, 3:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Real and 1 more	3 hr
Oct 8, 4:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Val Verde	4 hr
Oct 8, 6:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Real and 1 more	2 hr
Oct 8, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real, Val Verde	3 hr
Oct 8, 11:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick and 3 more	3 hr
Oct 8, 12:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	44 min
Oct 8, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Hays	58 min
Oct 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Hays	55 min
Oct 8, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	54 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.