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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2007, 6:51 PM CDT for Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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 24, 2007, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Maverick County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 6:54 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Eagle Pass, TX | |
| Apr 24, 7:01 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Se Eagle Pass, TX | MAVERICK CO DISPATCH REPORTED A TORNADO IN LOMA LINDA. MULTIPLE INJURIES WITH DAMAGE TO HOMES. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 2517 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 242351 TOREWX TXC323-250045- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0018.070424T2351Z-070425T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 651 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MAVERICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...EL INDIO...EAGLE PASS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EAGLE PASS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EL INDIO BY 725 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 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2876 10056 2860 10060 2833 10012 2864 10012 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 250000 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 658 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 TXC323-250045- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-070425T0045Z/ MAVERICK TX- 658 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR MAVERICK COUNTY... AT 655 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF EAGLE PASS...MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF EL INDIO BY 720 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A STRONG TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY VERY LARGE HAIL OF BASEBALL SIZE OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS OVER 70 MPH IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2876 10056 2860 10060 2833 10012 2864 10012 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 250020 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 716 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 TXC323-250045- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-070425T0045Z/ MAVERICK TX- 716 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR MAVERICK COUNTY... AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG SIGNS OF A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF EL INDIO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO TRACK WILL RUN NEARLY PARALLEL TO HIGHWAY 377 OVER EASTERN MAVERICK COUNTY...REMAINING ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY AS IT APPROACHES THE DIMMIT COUNTY BORDER BY 745 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A STRONG TORNADO AS WELL AS BASEBALL SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 70 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2876 10056 2860 10060 2833 10012 2864 10012 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 4:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 22 more | 26 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 57 min |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.