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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2007, 7:23 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2007, 8:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 140025 TOREWX TXC171-140115- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0014.070414T0023Z-070414T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 723 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GILLESPIE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FREDERICKSBURG... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH ACROSS GILLESPIE COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE... AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...QUARTER SIZE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF FREDERICKSBURG BY 735 PM CDT... WILLOW CITY BY 755 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 3048 9936 3017 9932 3018 9863 3048 9863 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 140102 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 800 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007 TXC171-140110- /O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070414T0115Z/ GILLESPIE TX- 800 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GILLESPIE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GILLESPIE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3048 9936 3017 9932 3018 9863 3048 9863 $$
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, 7:43 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.