Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 2007, 5:41 PM CDT for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 16, 2007, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | 9 Ne Boerne, TX | KENDALL CO SHERIFF REPORTS TORNADO AT CAVE WITHOUT A NAME. UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF DAMAGE TO A BUILDING. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 883 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 162240 TOREWX TXC259-162315- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0035.070816T2241Z-070816T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 541 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KENDALL COUNTY... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR KREUTZBERG...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOERNE...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WALNUT GROVE BY 550 PM CDT... SISTERDALE BY 555 PM CDT... WELFARE AND NELSON CITY BY 600 PM CDT... WARING BY 605 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. LAT...LON 2982 9858 2988 9850 3002 9883 2987 9886 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 162246 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 544 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2007 TXC259-162315- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-070816T2315Z/ KENDALL TX- 544 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR KENDALL COUNTY... AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR KREUTZBERG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOERNE...MOVING WEST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WALNUT GROVE AND SISTERDALE BY 550 PM CDT... WELFARE AND NELSON CITY BY 555 PM CDT... WARING BY 600 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN A NEARBY DITCH OR CULVERT YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. IF TAKING SHELTER OUTDOORS...BE PREPARED FOR THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 2982 9858 2988 9850 3002 9883 2987 9886 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 162308 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 607 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2007 TXC259-162317- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-070816T2315Z/ KENDALL TX- 607 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KENDALL COUNTY EXPIRES AT 615 PM CDT... INDICATIONS OF ROTATION IN THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER KENDALL COUNTY HAVE GRADUALLY WEAKENED...SO THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THERE REMAINS AN ISOLATED THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL TORNADO DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THIS EVENING. LAT...LON 2982 9858 2988 9850 3002 9883 2987 9886 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 9:49 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, DeWitt, Dimmit, Frio, Gonzales and 6 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 days |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 4 days |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 6 days |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 days |
| Aug 16, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 17 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:06 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 6 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.