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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2003, 7:08 PM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 13, 2003, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Frio County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
373 WFUS54 KEWX 140008 TORSAT TXC163-140115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 708 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... FRIO * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 708 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOORE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF DEVINE...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER MOORE AT 715 PM OVER BIG FOOT AT 730 PM LAT...LON 2910 9916 2902 9919 2883 9882 2908 9884 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 71 min |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 30 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.