Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2007, 2:27 PM CDT for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2007, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 19:31 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, 7.5 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KEWX 261927
TOREWX
TXC325-262000-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0006.070326T1927Z-070326T2000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
227 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
MEDINA
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 218 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6
MILES SOUTH OF DHANIS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HONDO...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
DHANIS BY 235 PM CDT
HONDO BY 255 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
$$4 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KEWX 261936
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
235 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
TXC325-262000-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070326T2000Z/
MEDINA TX-
235 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR MEDINA
COUNTY...
AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF HONDO...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO
OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND
TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD.
LAT...LON 2929 9904 2910 9928 2910 9938 2909 9940
2910 9941 2925 9941 2944 9922
$$000
WWUS54 KEWX 261939
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
239 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
TXC325-262000-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070326T2000Z/
MEDINA TX-
239 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR MEDINA
COUNTY...
AT 236 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HONDO...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
DEVINE...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
$$000
WWUS54 KEWX 261948
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
248 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
TXC325-262000-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070326T2000Z/
MEDINA TX-
248 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR MEDINA
COUNTY...
AT 242 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HONDO...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CASTROVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY
SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH
OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 2929 9904 2910 9928 2910 9938 2909 9940
2910 9941 2925 9941 2944 9922
$$000
WWUS54 KEWX 262000
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
258 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
TXC325-262008-
/O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070326T2000Z/
MEDINA TX-
258 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MEDINA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 300 PM CDT...
THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MEDINA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR NO LONGER INDICATES A TORNADO AND
WE HAVE NOT RECIEVED ANY ADDITIONAL PUBLIC REPORTS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 4 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 5:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr, Llano | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 88 min |
| Mar 26, 11:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 11:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 12:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 2:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 15 min |
| Mar 26, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 23 min |
| Mar 26, 3:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 20 min |
| Mar 26, 4:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 22 min |
| Mar 26, 6:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 6:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 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.