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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2007, 8:06 PM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report 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
- May 2, 2007, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:10 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 10 E Uvalde, TX | FUNNEL CLOUDS SPOTTED 10 MILES EAST OF THE CITY OF UVALDE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2899 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 030105 TOREWX TXC463-030130- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0028.070503T0106Z-070503T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 806 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... UVALDE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 802 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR KNIPPA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF UVALDE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SABINAL BY 815 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 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2933 9973 2915 9970 2916 9943 2939 9943 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 030116 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 816 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 TXC463-030130- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-070503T0130Z/ UVALDE TX- 816 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR UVALDE COUNTY... AT 815 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KNIPPA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF UVALDE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL UVALDE COUNTY AT 830 PM CDT A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2935 9966 2911 9968 2911 9942 2936 9942 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 28 min |
| May 2, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 28 min |
| May 2, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 63 min |
| May 2, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 2, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 43 min |
| May 2, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 56 min |
| May 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 61 min |
| May 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 31 min |
| May 2, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 40 min |
| May 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 19 min |
| May 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 60 min |
| May 2, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 18 min |
| May 2, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 28 min |
| May 2, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 55 min |
| May 2, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 31 min |
| May 2, 9:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 2 hr |
| May 2, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee | 3 hr |
| May 2, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Lee | 3 hr |
| May 2, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 57 min |
| May 2, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe, Wilson | 21 min |
| May 3, 12:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 43 min |
| May 3, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 55 min |
| May 3, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 34 min |
| May 3, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Kendall, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 3 hr |
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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.