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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2007, 9:02 PM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Frio County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 030202 TOREWX TXC163-030230- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0031.070503T0202Z-070503T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 902 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRIO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 857 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FRIO TOWN...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEARSALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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 2908 9940 2887 9940 2882 9928 2909 9914 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 030209 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 908 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 TXC163-030230- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-070503T0230Z/ FRIO TX- 908 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR FRIO COUNTY... AT 901 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FRIO TOWN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEARSALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWEST FRIO WEST OF YANCY AND NORTHWEST FRIO TOWN. THIS STORM ALSO CONTAINS GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2908 9940 2887 9940 2881 9921 2908 9909 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 030224 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 923 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 TXC163-030233- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-070503T0230Z/ FRIO TX- 923 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FRIO COUNTY EXPIRES AT 930 PM CDT... THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FRIO COUNTY IS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...HOWEVER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FRIO COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM FOR GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. $$
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, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 24 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, 9:20 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.