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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2006, 10:11 PM CST for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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, 10:11 PM CST (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2006, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hays County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 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, 8:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 271 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 200411
TOREWX
TXC209-200500-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0008.060320T0411Z-060320T0500Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1011 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
HAYS
* UNTIL 1100 PM CST
* AT 1006 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF HENLY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WOODCREEK...DRIPPING SPRINGS
AND DRIFTWOOD.
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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
400 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2996 9820 3005 9830 3022 9824 3029 9808
3011 9794
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KEWX 200427
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1025 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006
TXC209-200500-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-060320T0500Z/
HAYS TX-
1025 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST FOR HAYS
COUNTY...
AT 1018 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF
WOODCREEK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WIMBERLEY...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DRIPPING SPRINGS...
DRIFTWOOD...MOUNTAIN CITY...HAYS AND BUDA.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
400 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2991 9812 3005 9830 3024 9822 3029 9808
3006 9781 2998 9791
$$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, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 10:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 10:28 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 |
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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.