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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2006, 3:35 PM CDT for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. 4 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 14, 2006, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:38 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 Wsw Florence, TX | SHERIFF REPORTED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT JUNCTION OF HWY 183 AND S STATE HWY 138 W OF FLORENCE. |
| May 14, 3:38 PM CDT | TORNADO | W Florence, TX | SHERIFF REPORTED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT JUNCTION OF HWY 183 AND S STATE HWY 138 W OF FLORENCE. |
| May 14, 3:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Wsw Florence, TX | TWO TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED SEVERAL BUILDINGS BLOWN DOWN INCLUDING A BARN. WIND APPEARED TO BE STRAIGHT LINE. WINDS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 70 AND 80 KTS. REPORT RELAYED TO NWS AT 505 PM. |
| May 14, 3:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Wsw Florence, TX | ROOF TORN OFF OF HOUSE. |
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 14, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 14, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KEWX 142035
TOREWX
TXC491-142100-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0035.060514T2035Z-060514T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
335 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FLORENCE
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 336 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ANDICE...OR
ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF BERTRAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FLORENCE AND GEORGETOWN DAM
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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3059 9771 3064 9780 3076 9798 3089 9785
3090 9785 3087 9777 3084 9775 3079 9761
3077 9758
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 64 min |
| May 14, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 55 min |
| May 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 61 min |
| May 14, 3:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 2 hr |
| May 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 28 min |
| May 14, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 61 min |
| May 14, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 57 min |
| May 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 46 min |
| May 14, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| May 14, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 68 min |
| May 14, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 46 min |
| May 14, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 54 min |
| May 14, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 118 min |
| May 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 54 min |
| May 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 65 min |
| May 14, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 34 min |
| May 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 62 min |
| May 14, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 69 min |
| May 14, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 55 min |
| May 14, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 61 min |
| May 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 55 min |
| May 14, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Karnes | 31 min |
| May 14, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.