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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 26, 2007Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2007, 2:06 PM CDT for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
Mar 26, 2007, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2007, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Medina County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -147 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 261906
TOREWX
TXC325-261930-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0005.070326T1906Z-070326T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
206 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  MEDINA

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 200 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
  DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF DHANIS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  BATESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  DHANIS AND 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HONDO BY 230 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 2929 9904 2910 9928 2910 9938 2909 9940
      2910 9941 2925 9941 2944 9922

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS54 KEWX 261914
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
214 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007

TXC325-261930-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070326T1930Z/
MEDINA TX-
214 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR MEDINA
COUNTY...

AT 206 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTH OF
DHANIS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HONDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 2929 9904 2910 9928 2910 9938 2909 9940
      2910 9941 2925 9941 2944 9922

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 1:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde6 hr
Mar 26, 3:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards4 hr
Mar 26, 4:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKinney3 hr
Mar 26, 5:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal, Uvalde3 hr
Mar 26, 7:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde4 hr
Mar 26, 9:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr, Llano3 hr
Mar 26, 10:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera88 min
Mar 26, 11:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet, Kendall3 hr
Mar 26, 11:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet3 hr
Mar 26, 12:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Kerr2 hr
Mar 26, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina, Uvalde, Zavala30 min
Mar 26, 2:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Kerr2 hr
Mar 26, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXMedina33 min
Mar 26, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio15 min
Mar 26, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXFrio31 min
Mar 26, 3:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Kendall2 hr
Mar 26, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa, Frio34 min
Mar 26, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Medina23 min
Mar 26, 3:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
Mar 26, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa34 min
Mar 26, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick20 min
Mar 26, 4:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal2 hr
Mar 26, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar31 min
Mar 26, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa22 min
Mar 26, 6:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXCaldwell, Guadalupe3 hr
Mar 26, 6:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal2 hr
Mar 26, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilson3 hr
Mar 26, 6:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGonzales3 hr

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.