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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 4, 2005Dimmit County, Maverick County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 9:42 PM CDT for Dimmit County, Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 4, 2005, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dimmit County, TX, Maverick County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 3365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 050242
TOREWX
TXC127-323-050330-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0012.050605T0242Z-050605T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
942 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  MAVERICK
  DIMMIT

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 939 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTHERN
  MAVERICK COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTIES.

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 2840 10030 2825 10020 2827 9972 2852 9993

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 050256
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
955 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

TXC323-050305-
/O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050605T0330Z/
MAVERICK TX-
955 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MAVERICK COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 2848 10009 2821 10014 2821 9965 2837 9966

$$

TXC127-050330-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050605T0330Z/
DIMMIT TX-
955 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR DIMMIT COUNTY...

AT 952 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER DIMMIT COUNTY...OR
ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF CARRIZO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.

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 2848 10009 2821 10014 2821 9965 2837 9966

$$

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 050321
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1020 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

TXC127-050330-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050605T0330Z/
DIMMIT TX-
1020 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR DIMMIT COUNTY...

AT 1015 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CATARINA TO ASHERTON CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING VERY HIGH WINDS OF 70 MPH OR GREATER AS THE STORM CONTINUES
EAST.  A SHORT LIVED TORNADO IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM FOR 
THE NEXT 10 MINUTES.

LAT...LON 2851 9994 2825 9995 2823 9941 2857 9943

$$

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 050330
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1028 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

TXC127-050338-
/O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050605T0330Z/
DIMMIT TX-
1030 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DIMMIT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1030 PM CDT...

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DIMMIT COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AS 
THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND WAS MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTY.  GUSTY 
WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND DIME SIZED HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH 
THIS STORM AS IT EXITS EASTERN DIMMIT COUNTY.


$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala	65 min

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.