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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 5:12 PM CST for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 18 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2002, 5:12 PM CST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2002, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kerr County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 5:40 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Hunt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 232312 TORSAT TXC265-232330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 506 PM CST MON DEC 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KERR * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 506 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 26 MILES WEST OF KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEAKEY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES SOUTH OF KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA AT 525 PM 5 MILES WEST OF HUNT AT 530 PM $$
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, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 29 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, 5:23 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.