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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 19, 2002Frio County, Zavala County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 6:25 PM CST for Frio County, Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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: Mar 19, 2002, 6:25 PM CST (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2002, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Frio County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 19, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -500 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 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 200025
TORSAT
TXC163-507-200100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
624 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  FRIO
  ZAVALA

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 624 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING ABOUT 12 
MILES NORTHWEST OF CRYSTAL CITY...  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD AND STAY 
SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 57 AND REACH THE FRIO COUNTY LINE 700 PM.


LAT...LON 2889 9990 2871 9990 2868 9911 2890 9910

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	52 min
Mar 19, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Zavala	42 min
Mar 19, 6:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	52 min
Mar 19, 6:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Medina, Uvalde	51 min
Mar 19, 7:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar	57 min
Mar 19, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio	60 min
Mar 19, 7:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	54 min
Mar 19, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick	62 min
Mar 19, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	25 min
Mar 19, 8:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	61 min
Mar 19, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	55 min
Mar 19, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Travis	57 min
Mar 19, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit	60 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.