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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 13, 2007Gonzales County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2007, 9:48 PM CDT for Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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: Apr 13, 2007, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gonzales County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 2013 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -283 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 140250
SVREWX
TXC177-140345-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0089.070414T0248Z-070414T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
948 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GONZALES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GONZALES...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 941 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED
  THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...DEVELOPING TOWARD GONZALES
  COUNTY FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS
  WILL MOVE ACROSS GONZALES COUNTY AT 40 MPH...AND ARE
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL GONZALES COUNTY AT 1000 PM CDT

LAT...LON 2959 9721 2952 9721 2938 9724 2925 9745
      2912 9762 2931 9781 2937 9785 2965 9764
      2964 9760 2978 9732 2964 9714

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 140259
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
959 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

TXC029-140315-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0086.000000T0000Z-070414T0315Z/
BEXAR TX-
959 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR BEXAR COUNTY...

AT 949 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LACKLAND AFB...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF
SAN ANTONIO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CALAVERAS LAKE AND ELMENDORF BY 1005 PM CDT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT
QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 2951 9864 2951 9856 2950 9846 2948 9822
      2927 9830 2914 9843 2928 9881 2953 9880
      2953 9880 2953 9873

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 13, 6:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 6:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
641 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

.UPDATE...
TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL BUT DIMMIT, EDWARDS AND VAL VERDE COUNTIES
TIL 2 AM SATURDAY MORNING.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 612 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007/

UPDATE...
PLACED POPS ACROSS ALL AREAS TONIGHT. NOTHING ELSE CHANGED AT
THIS TIME.

PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 324 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007/

DISCUSSION...
CONVECTION WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION WITHIN THE NEXT
FEW HOURS AS TEMPS AREA WIDE ARE SITTING IN THE UPPER 70S TO MID
80S...AND THE CAPPING INVERSION AT 850 HPA IS SHOWING SIGNS OF
BREAKING. WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS THE DRY SLOT OVER
MEXICO CONTINUING TO ENTER OUR REGION...WITH AN INTERESTING LITTLE
JET MAX ALLOWING SOME ACTIVITY TO SPIN UP OVER THE SIERRA MADRES.
WHILE OVERALL POPS ARE NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE...50S AT BEST OVER OUR
NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES...ANY STORMS WHICH DEVELOP COULD VERY EASILY
BECOME SEVERE. WILL LIKELY SEE SOME SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT LATER
THIS EVENING AHEAD OF THE MAIN SQUALL LINE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
COLD FRONT. WHILE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN
SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE
PRE-FRONTAL SUPERCELLS.

IF ANY GOOD NEWS COULD COME FROM THIS SCENARIO...IT LOOKS LIKE THE
CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL HAVE CLEARED THE CWA BY 8 AM...WITH A
VERY MILD WEEKEND IN STORE. SATURDAY WILL BE WINDY...WITH
SUSTAINED NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH
POSSIBLE. HOLDING OFF ON A WIND ADVISORY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...BUT
ONE MAY BECOME NECESSARY FOR COUNTIES ALONG THE ESCARPMENT AS
WINDS MAY REACH 26 MPH DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. CLEAR
SKIES SATURDAY NIGHT WILL LEAD TO A CHILLY START SUNDAY MORNING.
SOME AREAS ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY DIPPING TO WITHIN A FEW DEGREES
OF FREEZING. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING BACK GULF MOISTURE ON
SUNDAY...BUT WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FORMATION OF CLOUDS, AND NOT
RAIN. THE MILD CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY...BUT STRONG
GULF FLOW WILL LEAD TO ANOTHER WINDY AFTERNOON.

THE NEXT BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY AS
AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES THE REGION. FOR NOW, HAVE GONE
WITH SLT TO LOW-END CHC POPS FOR THIS TIME FRAME UNTIL THE TIMING
OF THIS FEATURE AND DEPTH OF AVAILABLE MOISTURE IS BETTER
RESOLVED.

FIRE WEATHER...
A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
VERY DRY NORTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH SUSTAINED
WINDS REACHING 15 TO 25 MPH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
WILL FALL TO BELOW 20 PERCENT ALONG THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS LATE SATURDAY
MORNING. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM CDT. FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION...PLEASE REFER TO THE SATRFWEWX PRODUCT.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AUSTIN CAMP MABRY              55  69  42  76  54 /  50  -    0   0  -
AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT  55  69  38  75  46 /  50  -    0   0  -
DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT           50  79  45  78  56 /  40   0   0   0  -
SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT       54  72  41  75  52 /  40  -    0   0  -

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
RED FLAG WARNING FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: DIMMIT...KINNEY...MAVERICK...UVALDE...ZAVALA.

&&

06/08

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 7:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
745 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141100-
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-
GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-
FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT-
745 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
THERE IS A RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT PARTS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN
ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE RISK AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY MAY REQUIRE
A WIND ADVISORY. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR SATURDAY
ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS COUNTIES DUE TO
WINDY AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS FORECAST THERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FRIDAY EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
735 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0717 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     9 W HARPER              30.30N 99.40W
04/13/2007                   KIMBLE             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS.

&&

DC

Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
814 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0757 PM     HAIL             11 SW KERRVILLE         29.93N 99.27W
04/13/2007  M0.75 INCH       KERR               TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

0800 PM     HAIL             REAGAN WELLS            29.55N 99.80W
04/13/2007  M3.00 INCH       UVALDE             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            2 1/2 TO 3 1/2 INCH HAIL. DID NOT COMPLETELY COVER THE
            GROUND.

&&

DC

Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
819 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 PM     HAIL             2 S KERRVILLE           30.01N 99.14W
04/13/2007  M0.75 INCH       KERR               TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

DC

Local storm report, Apr 13, 9:04 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
904 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 PM     HAIL             REAGAN WELLS            29.55N 99.80W
04/13/2007  M2.50 INCH       UVALDE             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            2 TO 2 1/2 INCH HAIL. DID NOT COMPLETELY COVER THE
            GROUND.

&&

DC

Local storm report, Apr 13, 9:43 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
943 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     HAIL             1 S ROCKSPRINGS         30.00N 100.21W
04/13/2007  M0.75 INCH       EDWARDS            TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            PENNY SIZE HAIL COVERED 20 TO 30 PERCENT OF THE GROUND.

0700 PM     HAIL             16 NNW LEAKEY           29.94N 99.86W
04/13/2007  M1.50 INCH       REAL               TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            1 1/2 HAIL AT PRADE RANCH.

&&

DC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	36 min
Apr 13, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Real	29 min
Apr 13, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	56 min
Apr 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gillespie	39 min
Apr 13, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Real	62 min
Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	47 min
Apr 13, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	55 min
Apr 13, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	54 min
Apr 13, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Medina	61 min
Apr 13, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	62 min
Apr 13, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee	59 min
Apr 13, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	63 min
Apr 13, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala	50 min
Apr 13, 11:06 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more	16 hr
Apr 13, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	41 min
Apr 14, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Wilson	60 min
Apr 14, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	26 min
Apr 14, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes	40 min
Apr 14, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Gonzales	24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.