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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 13, 2007Bexar County, Wilson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT for Bexar County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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: Apr 13, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2007, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bexar County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 13, 10:26 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	La Vernia, TX

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 140313
SVREWX
TXC029-493-140415-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0090.070414T0312Z-070414T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1012 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEXAR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
  DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR CHINA GROVE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN
  ANTONIO...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CALAVERAS LAKE BY 1020 PM CDT...
  ST. HEDWIG BY 1025 PM CDT...
  LA VERNIA BY 1035 PM CDT...
  SUTHERLAND SPRINGS BY 1045 PM CDT...
  STOCKDALE BY 1055 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE 
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD 
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A 
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE 
TORNADOES.

LAT...LON 2910 9801 2909 9803 2930 9847 2947 9845
      2945 9818 2943 9814 2940 9814 2938 9812
      2939 9811 2938 9785

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 140338
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1039 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

TXC029-140349-
/O.CAN.KEWX.SV.W.0090.000000T0000Z-070414T0415Z/
BEXAR TX-
1039 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BEXAR COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

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

LAT...LON 2930 9826 2944 9815 2940 9814 2938 9812
      2939 9811 2938 9785 2936 9786 2935 9785
      2928 9785

$$

TXC493-140415-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0090.000000T0000Z-070414T0415Z/
WILSON TX-
1039 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR WILSON COUNTY...

AT 1030 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LA VERNIA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST
OF STOCKDALE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL WILSON COUNTY AT 1050 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 2930 9826 2944 9815 2940 9814 2938 9812
      2939 9811 2938 9785 2936 9786 2935 9785
      2928 9785

$$

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, 9:56 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 9:56 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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

.UPDATE...
ACTIVITY WITH THE SQUALL LINE WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA.
HAVE ADJUSTED POPS TO THE WEST TO KEEP THEM GOING A LITTLE LONGER
THROUGH THE NIGHT. ALSO TIGHT GRADIENT, WHEN THE FRONT DOES PASS US
TOMORROW, MIGHT WARRANT WIND ADVISORY.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 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 27 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 37 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 58 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 53 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, 1 hour 8 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, 29 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, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.