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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2007, 7:16 PM CDT for Bandera County, Kerr County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bandera County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 140017 TOREWX TXC019-265-385-140045- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0013.070414T0016Z-070414T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 716 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BANDERA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... KERR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... REAL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 38 MILES WEST OF CAMP VERDE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF LEAKEY... MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CAMP VERDE BY 745 PM CDT... 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 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3007 9968 2989 9971 2979 9909 3001 9905 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 140033 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 732 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007 TXC019-265-385-140045- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070414T0045Z/ KERR TX-REAL TX-BANDERA TX- 732 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR BANDERA...REAL AND KERR COUNTIES... AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF CAMP VERDE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF VANDERPOOL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3007 9968 2989 9971 2979 9909 3001 9905 $$
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, 7:19 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, 10:12 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 |
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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.