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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2007, 1:46 AM CDT for Fayette County, Gonzales 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 25, 2007, 1:46 AM CDT (06:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2007, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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 24, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 2037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 250646 TOREWX TXC149-177-250715- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0022.070425T0646Z-070425T0715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 146 AM CDT WED APR 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FLATONIA... GONZALES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 143 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WAELDER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF GONZALES...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES SOUTH OF CISTERN BY 155 AM CDT... FLATONIA BY 200 AM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTH OF MULDOON BY 205 AM 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 600 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2976 9744 2961 9740 2969 9686 2990 9682 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 250654 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 153 AM CDT WED APR 25 2007 TXC149-177-250715- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070425T0715Z/ FAYETTE TX-GONZALES TX- 153 AM CDT WED APR 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR GONZALES AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... AT 147 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WAELDER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF FLATONIA...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MULDOON BY 205 AM CDT... THE TORNADO WILL LIKELY PASS SOUTH OF LAGRANGE...BUT COULD THREATEN THE AIRPORT BY 215 AM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2974 9736 2966 9732 2972 9685 2990 9685 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 250712 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 208 AM CDT WED APR 25 2007 TXC149-177-250718- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070425T0715Z/ FAYETTE TX-GONZALES TX- 208 AM CDT WED APR 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GONZALES AND FAYETTE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 215 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES ONLY A WEAK POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO...LOCATED NEAR FLATONIA AT 210 AM. THUS THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 215 AM. THE RADAR DETECTED TORNADO HAS ALREADY MOVED OUT OF GONZALES COUNTY. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ADDITIONAL TORNADOES AS THEY MOVE INTO EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY THROUGH 3 AM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2973 9736 2966 9732 2972 9685 2990 9685 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 10:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 12:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 114 min |
| Apr 25, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 53 min |
| Apr 25, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 2:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 24 min |
| Apr 25, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 19 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.