Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 2005, 10:24 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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
- Feb 23, 2005, 10:24 PM CST (04:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2005, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 240425 TOREWX TXC465-240500- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0001.050224T0424Z-050224T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1024 PM CST WED FEB 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 1020 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES WEST OF LOMA ALTA TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOMA ALTA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS ALONG HIGHWAYS 277 AND 377 BETWEEN DEL RIO AND LOMA ALTA. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3007 10115 2963 10094 2969 10070 3014 10071 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 240440 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1039 PM CST WED FEB 23 2005 TXC465-240500- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050224T0500Z/ VAL VERDE TX- 1039 PM CST WED FEB 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 PM CST FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY... AT 1035 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES WEST OF LOMA ALTA TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF LOMA ALTA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3007 10115 2963 10094 2969 10070 3014 10071 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 62 min |
| Feb 23, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 62 min |
| Feb 23, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 61 min |
| Feb 23, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 65 min |
| Feb 23, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 54 min |
| Feb 23, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 60 min |
| Feb 23, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 67 min |
| Feb 23, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 34 min |
| Feb 23, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Zavala | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 55 min |
| Feb 24, 1:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 58 min |
| Feb 24, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 71 min |
| Feb 24, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 3:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 67 min |
| Feb 24, 3:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 68 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.