Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2006, 9:30 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 5 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
- May 4, 2006, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2006, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 9:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 12 Nnw Fredericksburg, TX | |
| May 4, 9:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 6 N Fredericksburg, TX | |
| May 4, 9:50 PM CDT | HAIL 3 | 5 S Willow City, TX | IN GOLD. WINDOWS ON N SIDE OF HOUSE BROKEN OUT. CAR WINDSHIELD BROKEN OUT. |
| May 4, 10:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Fredericksburg, TX | CONSIDERABLE POWER OUTAGES, TREES DOWN, FLOODED ROADS. |
| May 4, 10:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 E Fredericksburg, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 3212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 050231 TOREWX TXC171-050315- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0031.060505T0230Z-060505T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 930 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 930 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF FREDERICKSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3048 9920 3027 9918 3027 9867 3046 9864 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 050248 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 944 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 TXC171-050315- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-060505T0315Z/ GILLESPIE TX- 944 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR GILLESPIE COUNTY... AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LBJ STATE PARK TO 15 MILES WEST OF FREDERICKSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR FREDERICKSBURG. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. LAT...LON 3044 9911 3015 9920 3014 9860 3047 9860 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 56 min |
| May 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 30 min |
| May 4, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 65 min |
| May 4, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 67 min |
| May 4, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 45 min |
| May 4, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 38 min |
| May 4, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 97 min |
| May 4, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 53 min |
| May 4, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 58 min |
| May 4, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 56 min |
| May 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 61 min |
| May 4, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 81 min |
| May 4, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 43 min |
| May 4, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 42 min |
| May 4, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 95 min |
| May 4, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 63 min |
| May 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 58 min |
| May 4, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| May 4, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 93 min |
| May 4, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 62 min |
| May 4, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 23 min |
| May 4, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 81 min |
| May 4, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 hr |
| May 4, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 43 min |
| May 4, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 41 min |
| May 4, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 71 min |
| May 4, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 69 min |
| May 4, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 47 min |
| May 4, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 46 min |
| May 5, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 29 min |
| May 5, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 22 more | 33 hr |
| May 5, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 34 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2006Every tornado warning in 2006Tornadoes in 2006
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.