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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2005, 12:28 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 20, 2005, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeWitt County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 12:51 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | S Yorktown, TX | FUNNEL CLOUD ON SOUTH SIDE OF YOAKUM. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 201728 TOREWX TXC123-201800- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0014.050720T1728Z-050720T1800Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1228 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... DEWITT * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES EAST OF YORKTOWN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WESTHOFF. 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 2883 9737 2902 9723 2920 9748 2906 9769 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 201742 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1242 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 TXC123-201800- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-050720T1800Z/ DEWITT TX- 1242 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR DEWITT COUNTY... AT 1240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR YORKTOWN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. LAT...LON 2883 9737 2902 9723 2920 9748 2906 9769 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.