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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 23, 2002Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 9:16 AM CST for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: Dec 23, 2002, 9:16 AM CST (15:16 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2002, 9:45 AM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 23, 5:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 1686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.2
Supercell composite: 15.7

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The text

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

406 
WFUS54 KEWX 231516
TORSAT
TXC149-231545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
914 AM CST MON DEC 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 AM CST

* AT 914 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY.  SOME OF THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES.  THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 

STRONG DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...POSSIBLE TORNADOES...
SOME HAIL...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY 
THROUGH 945 AM.

LAT...LON 2978 9720 2969 9694 3009 9672 2999 9699

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 2:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Kendall	25 min
Dec 23, 3:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Llano	41 min
Dec 23, 4:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	42 min
Dec 23, 6:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	53 min
Dec 23, 7:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	30 min
Dec 23, 7:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	31 min
Dec 23, 7:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt	47 min
Dec 23, 8:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	52 min
Dec 23, 8:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	47 min
Dec 23, 9:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lee	27 min
Dec 23, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	62 min
Dec 23, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real	56 min
Dec 23, 5:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kerr	24 min
Dec 23, 5:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kerr	18 min
Dec 23, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	52 min
Dec 23, 5:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	64 min
Dec 23, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.