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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 8, 2002, 12:46 PM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 12:46 PM CDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2002, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711 WFUS54 KEWX 081746 TORSAT TXC463-081830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1245 PM 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 130 PM CDT * AT 1245 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO 1 MILE WEST OF KNIPPA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF UVALDE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... KNIPPA SABINAL 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 2933 9977 2918 9966 2930 9942 2951 9951
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, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 49 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 |
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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.