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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 30, 2002Comal County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 30, 2002, 2:26 PM CST for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 30, 2002, 2:26 PM CST (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Dec 30, 2002, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comal County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 30, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -495 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 302026
TORSAT
TXC091-302130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
225 PM CST MON DEC 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 225 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO 
  MAY DEVELOP AT ANY MINUTE 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANYON LAKE...OR   
  ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLLYWOOD PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER CANYON LAKE AT 255 PM


LAT...LON 2979 9858 2972 9833 2984 9807 3000 9828

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 30, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr, Real	64 min
Dec 30, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Williamson	42 min
Dec 30, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	37 min
Dec 30, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	63 min
Dec 30, 2:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar	55 min
Dec 30, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Hays	55 min
Dec 30, 3:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Caldwell	57 min
Dec 30, 3:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	62 min
Dec 30, 3:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	61 min
Dec 30, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	55 min
Dec 30, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	52 min
Dec 30, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop	62 min
Dec 30, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	61 min
Dec 30, 4:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	53 min
Dec 30, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	60 min
Dec 30, 5:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee	64 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.