Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004

Tornado Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 27, 2004Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 7:08 PM CDT for Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2004, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 7:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	Laughlin Afb, TX	LAUGHLIN AFB KDLF OBSERVATION AT 0009 UTC...TORNADO NO. 1. TORNADO NO. 2 REPORTED IN PREVIOUS LSR AT 0018 UTC.
May 27, 7:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	Laughlin Afb, TX	LAUGHLIN AFB KDLF OBSERVATION AT 0009 UTC...TORNADO NO. 1. TORNADO NO. 2 REPORTED IN PREVIOUS LSR AT 0018 UTC.
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 69	Laughlin Afb, TX	LAUGHLIN AFB KDLF OBSERVATION AT 0018 UTC
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 69	Laughlin Afb, TX	LAUGHLIN AFB KDLF OBSERVATION AT 0018 UTC
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	TORNADO	Laughlin Afb, TX	REPORTED IN LAUGHLIN AFB KDLF OBSERVATION AT 0018 UTC
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	TORNADO	Laughlin Afb, TX	REPORTED IN LAUGHLIN AFB KDLF OBSERVATION AT 0018 UTC
May 27, 7:30 PM CDT	TORNADO	13 Wnw Brackettville, TX	REPORTED BY VAL VERDE COUNTY SHERIFF ENROUTE TO DEL RIO FROM SAN ANTONIO. SAME TORNADOES AS REPORTED FROM LAUGHLIN AFB. ONE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF U.S. 90...ONE ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 27, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 22 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: 2425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.8
Supercell composite: -5.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 280008
TORSAT
TXC271-465-280100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
707 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  VAL VERDE
  KINNEY

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 700 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LAUGHLIN
  AFB...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF DEL RIO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BRACKETTVILLE AND ALAMO
  VILLAGE.

SOFTBALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS LIFE THREATENING 
STORM.

LAT...LON 2950 10085 2928 10082 2920 10027 2958 10029

$$

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.