Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2007, 2:44 PM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2007, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 261944 TOREWX TXC163-262015- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0007.070326T1944Z-070326T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 244 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... FRIO * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 236 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF PEARSALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 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. LAT...LON 2888 9936 2865 9908 2882 9880 2909 9920 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 261949 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 249 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007 TXC163-262015- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070326T2015Z/ FRIO TX- 249 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR FRIO COUNTY... AT 242 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PEARSALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF FRIO COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2888 9936 2865 9908 2882 9880 2909 9920 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 261956 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 256 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007 TXC163-262015- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070326T2015Z/ FRIO TX- 256 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR FRIO COUNTY... AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PEARSALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF FRIO 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2888 9936 2865 9908 2882 9880 2909 9920 $$
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, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 15 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 |
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.