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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2008, 6:48 PM CDT for Atascosa County, Frio County, Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
- May 14, 2008, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Frio County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KEWX 142349
TOREWX
TXC013-163-507-150030-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0015.080514T2348Z-080515T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
648 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY...
FRIO COUNTY...
EASTERN ZAVALA COUNTY...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT.
* AT 647 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BLUFF...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BATESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES SOUTH OF BLUFF BY 655 PM CDT...
DIVOT BY 700 PM CDT...
DERBY...7 MILES NORTH OF DILLEY AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF PEARSALL BY
710 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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2900 9947 2896 9874 2863 9880 2863 9925
2866 9955
TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 281DEG 39KT 2881 9940
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KEWX 150016
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
715 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
TXC013-163-507-150030-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-080515T0030Z/
ATASCOSA TX-FRIO TX-ZAVALA TX-
715 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN ZAVALA...FRIO AND SOUTHWESTERN ATASCOSA COUNTIES...
AT 712 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO.
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DERBY...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DILLEY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES WEST OF HINDES BY 730 PM CDT...
A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO
OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND
TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2900 9947 2896 9874 2863 9880 2863 9925
2866 9955
TIME...MOT...LOC 0015Z 281DEG 39KT 2875 9907
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 70 min |
| May 13, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 31 min |
| May 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 28 min |
| May 13, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 24 min |
| May 13, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 61 min |
| May 13, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr, Real | 53 min |
| May 13, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 51 min |
| May 14, 1:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 63 min |
| May 14, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 62 min |
| May 14, 2:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Real, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| May 14, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 47 min |
| May 14, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kinney, Medina, Real, Uvalde | 61 min |
| May 14, 3:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Real | 118 min |
| May 14, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 56 min |
| May 14, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 66 min |
| May 14, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 25 min |
| May 14, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Kendall, Kerr and 1 more | 68 min |
| May 14, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 63 min |
| May 14, 4:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 2 hr |
| May 14, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays | 69 min |
| May 14, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 56 min |
| May 14, 5:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet | 116 min |
| May 14, 6:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano | 79 min |
| May 14, 8:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays, Travis | 37 min |
| May 14, 8:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis | 2 hr |
| May 14, 9:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 14, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 75 min |
| May 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 55 min |
| May 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 62 min |
| May 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 40 min |
| May 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 64 min |
| May 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 38 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.