Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2004, 3:36 PM CDT for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- May 13, 2004, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Karnes County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 132036 TORSAT TXC255-132130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 336 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KARNES * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FALLS CITY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF KARNES CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RUNGE...KENEDY AND CESTOHOWA. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2908 9790 2890 9814 2872 9800 2883 9762 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 2 hr |
| May 13, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 58 min |
| May 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette | 4 hr |
| May 13, 4:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 66 min |
| May 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 2 hr |
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.