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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 25, 2005Bastrop County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 2005, 9:57 PM CST for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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: Mar 25, 2005, 9:57 PM CST (03:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2005, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bastrop County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 25, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 260357
TOREWX
TXC021-260430-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0004.050326T0357Z-050326T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
957 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  BASTROP

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 955 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ELGIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE TO NEAR ELGIN BY 1015 PM.

A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO
OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND
TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3043 9737 3021 9749 3024 9723 3025 9709
      3033 9720

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 260403
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1003 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005

TXC021-260430-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050326T0430Z/
BASTROP TX-
1003 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CST FOR BASTROP
COUNTY...

AT 1001 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ELGIN...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL 
SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS. 

A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO
OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND
TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3043 9737 3021 9749 3024 9723 3025 9709
      3033 9720

$$

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 260430
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1028 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005

TXC021-260438-
/O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050326T0430Z/
BASTROP TX-
1028 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BASTROP COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1030 PM CST...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR BASTROP COUNTY 
THROUGH 1045 PM CST...

AT 1028 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE ROTATIONAL SIGNATURES HAVE 
WEAKENED AS THE STORM APPOACHED LEE COUNTY. THROUGH 1045 PM...DIME 
SIZED HAIL REMAINS POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME EASTERN BASTROP COUNTRY 
NEAR PAIGE.

LAT...LON 3043 9737 3021 9749 3024 9723 3025 9709
      3033 9720

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 7:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	64 min
Mar 25, 7:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	58 min
Mar 25, 7:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie	64 min
Mar 25, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Hays, Travis	65 min
Mar 25, 9:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	65 min
Mar 25, 9:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Travis	34 min
Mar 26, 6:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	56 min
Mar 26, 6:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	67 min
Mar 26, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	54 min
Mar 26, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	60 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.