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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2007, 3:50 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- May 2, 2007, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Edwards County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 022051 TOREWX TXC137-022130- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0027.070502T2050Z-070502T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 350 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 342 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG THE EDWARDS AND SUTTON COUNTY LINE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EDWARDS COUNTY AT 410 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 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3041 10063 3021 10067 3012 10020 3041 10016 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 022110 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 408 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 TXC137-022130- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-070502T2130Z/ EDWARDS TX- 408 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR EDWARDS COUNTY... AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED ALONG THE EDWARDS AND SUTTON COUNTY LINE...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKSPRINGS ...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EDWARDS COUNTY AT 420 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3041 10063 3021 10067 3012 10020 3041 10016 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 022127 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 427 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 TXC137-022137- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-070502T2130Z/ EDWARDS TX- 427 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EDWARDS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 430 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3041 10063 3021 10067 3012 10020 3041 10016 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 36 min |
| May 1, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 21 min |
| May 1, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 43 min |
| May 1, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 25 min |
| May 1, 7:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 3 hr |
| May 1, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| May 1, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 33 min |
| May 1, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 50 min |
| May 1, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 23 min |
| May 1, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 46 min |
| May 1, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 35 min |
| May 1, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 47 min |
| May 1, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 66 min |
| May 1, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 49 min |
| May 1, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 27 min |
| May 2, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 57 min |
| May 2, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 66 min |
| May 2, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 32 min |
| May 2, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 24 min |
| May 2, 4:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 23 more | 24 hr |
| May 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 33 min |
| May 2, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 28 min |
| May 2, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 64 min |
| May 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 54 min |
| May 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 64 min |
| May 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 61 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.