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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 14, 2006Karnes County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2006, 6:29 PM CDT for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Karnes County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 6:47 PM CDT	HAIL 1	1 Ne Kenedy, TX	QUARTER SIZE HAIL, VERY STRONG WINDS AND A FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED IN KENEDY.

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, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 3333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -2.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 142329
TOREWX
TXC255-150000-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0036.060514T2329Z-060515T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
629 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KARNES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 628 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR RUNGE...OR
  ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF KARNES CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 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.

LAT...LON 2903 9778 2898 9790 2870 9781 2881 9762

$$

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, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	25 min
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, 6:56 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.