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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2006, 9:43 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 28, 2006, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2006, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kerr County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Nnw Mountain Home, TX | |
| Apr 28, 9:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 W Mountain Home, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1904 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 290243 TOREWX TXC265-290315- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0028.060429T0243Z-060429T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 943 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KERR * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAIN HOME...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3028 9967 3006 9968 3011 9931 3028 9932 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 290257 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 956 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006 TXC265-290315- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-060429T0315Z/ KERR TX- 956 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR KERR COUNTY... AT 951 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF KERRVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL KERR COUNTY AT 1010 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3028 9967 3006 9968 3011 9931 3028 9932 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 11:45 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Maverick, Zavala | 4 hr |
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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.