Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2008, 7:03 PM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 17, 2008, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Bandera County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 180003 TOREWX TXC019-180030- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0001.080318T0003Z-080318T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 703 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN BANDERA COUNTY... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 701 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VANDERPOOL...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 9 MILES WEST OF MEDINA BY 730 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2991 9947 2984 9910 2964 9936 2965 9955 TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 195DEG 29KT 2963 9946 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 180010 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 709 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXC019-180030- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080318T0030Z/ BANDERA TX- 709 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR WESTERN BANDERA COUNTY... AT 706 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VANDERPOOL...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 9 MILES WEST OF MEDINA BY 730 PM CDT... GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2991 9947 2984 9910 2964 9936 2965 9955 TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 195DEG 29KT 2968 9945 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 180019 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 718 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXC019-180030- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080318T0030Z/ BANDERA TX- 718 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR WESTERN BANDERA COUNTY... AT 714 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA...OR 8 MILES WEST OF TARPLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MEDINA BY 730 PM CDT... GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2991 9947 2984 9910 2964 9936 2965 9955 TIME...MOT...LOC 0018Z 216DEG 27KT 2970 9938 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 23 min |
| Mar 17, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 17, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 1:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 35 min |
| Mar 18, 1:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 2:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 16 min |
| Mar 18, 2:32 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 67 min |
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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.