Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 7:08 PM CST for Karnes 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
- Nov 23, 2004, 7:08 PM CST (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2004, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 67 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 3323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KEWX 240109
TOREWX
TXC255-240215-
/X.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0032.041124T0108Z-041124T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
708 PM CST TUE NOV 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
KARNES
* UNTIL 815 PM CST
* AT 707 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FALLS
CITY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER
YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER
PROTECTION.
LAT...LON 2889 9818 2870 9802 2873 9792 2868 9779
2882 9758 2901 9777 2912 9762 2922 9774
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 6:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 55 min |
| Nov 23, 6:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 53 min |
| Nov 23, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 65 min |
| Nov 23, 6:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 65 min |
| Nov 23, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 65 min |
| Nov 23, 7:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 57 min |
| Nov 23, 7:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 59 min |
| Nov 23, 8:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 47 min |
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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.