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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2005, 12:40 AM CST for Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 24, 2005, 12:40 AM CST (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2005, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 240640 TOREWX TXC507-240730- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0002.050224T0640Z-050224T0730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1240 AM CST THU FEB 24 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ZAVALA * UNTIL 130 AM CST * AT 1236 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF CRYSTAL CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BATESVILLE. 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 2883 9996 2867 9987 2881 9950 2901 9962 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 240708 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 108 AM CST THU FEB 24 2005 TXC507-240730- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050224T0730Z/ ZAVALA TX- 108 AM CST THU FEB 24 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM CST FOR ZAVALA COUNTY... AT 106 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CRYSTAL CITY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BATESVILLE. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2883 9996 2867 9987 2881 9950 2901 9962 $$
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, 10:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 36 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, 12:55 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.