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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2006, 6:28 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 17 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
- Mar 19, 2006, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2006, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 1885 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 200030 TOREWX TXC465-200045- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0004.060320T0028Z-060320T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 628 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 624 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 19 MILES EAST OF COMSTOCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2962 10129 2947 10117 2963 10069 2990 10071 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 56 min |
| Mar 19, 9:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 10:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 10:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 10:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 14 min |
| Mar 19, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 22 min |
| Mar 19, 11:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 25 min |
| Mar 20, 12:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.