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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2004, 7:25 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 4095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 140025 TORSAT TXC171-140130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 723 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LOYAL VALLEY...OR 4 MILES NORTH OF CHERRY SPRING...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE SURROUNDING THE COMMUNITY OF CHERRY SPRING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3051 9889 3050 9913 3037 9903 3038 9874 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 66 min |
| May 13, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 54 min |
| May 13, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 114 min |
| May 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 61 min |
| May 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 2 hr |
| May 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| May 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 65 min |
| May 13, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 57 min |
| May 13, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson | 4 hr |
| May 13, 11:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 94 min |
| May 14, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 58 min |
| May 14, 5:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 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.