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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2006, 10:15 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Apr 28, 2006, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2006, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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 290314
TOREWX
TXC265-290345-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0029.060429T0315Z-060429T0345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1015 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS REISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
KERR
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF
KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MOUNTAIN HOME...HUNT AND
INGRAM.
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 3009 9966 3028 9966 3028 9932 3015 9932
3013 9926 3013 9916 3000 9930 3006 9966
3008 9967
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KEWX 290329
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1029 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006
TXC265-290345-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-060429T0345Z/
KERR TX-
1029 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR KERR
COUNTY...
AT 1024 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME...OR
ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF KERRVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE INGRAM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3009 9966 3028 9966 3028 9932 3015 9932
3013 9926 3013 9916 3000 9930 3006 9966
3008 9967
$$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, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 32 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, 10:23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.