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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2006, 10:00 PM CST for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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
- Mar 19, 2006, 10:00 PM CST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2006, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 10:10 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Uvalde, TX | SOUTHEAST SIDE OF UVALDE. |
| Mar 19, 10:10 PM CST | TORNADO | Uvalde, TX | CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN. POWER LINES DOWN. TRAILERS TURNED OVER. SOUTHEAST SIDE OF UVALDE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 200400 TOREWX TXC463-200430- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0006.060320T0400Z-060320T0430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1000 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... UVALDE * UNTIL 1030 PM CST * AT 954 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UVALDE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KNIPPA AND SABINAL. 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 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2934 9999 2910 9999 2911 9942 2949 9943 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 17 min |
| 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, 10:05 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.