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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2008, 9:52 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 20 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
- Jul 24, 2008, 9:52 AM CDT (14:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 10:12 AM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 241452 TOREWX TXC177-187-255-493-241515- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0023.080724T1452Z-080724T1515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 952 AM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GONZALES COUNTY... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN KARNES COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN WILSON COUNTY... * UNTIL 1015 AM CDT. * AT 948 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GILLETT...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF KOSCIUSKO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 38 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NIXON BY 1000 AM CDT... PANDORA BY 1005 AM CDT... STOCKDALE BY 1010 AM CDT... 8 MILES EAST OF SUTHERLAND SPRINGS BY 1015 AM 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 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2928 9812 2941 9781 2910 9765 2899 9787 TIME...MOT...LOC 1452Z 150DEG 33KT 2913 9782 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 241504 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1004 AM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 TXC177-187-255-493-241515- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-080724T1515Z/ GUADALUPE TX-GONZALES TX-WILSON TX-KARNES TX- 1004 AM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN KARNES...NORTHEASTERN WILSON...SOUTHWESTERN GONZALES AND EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTIES... AT 1001 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GILLETT...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF KOSCIUSKO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 33 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PANDORA BY 1010 AM CDT... STOCKDALE AND 9 MILES EAST OF SUTHERLAND SPRINGS BY 1015 AM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2928 9812 2941 9781 2910 9765 2899 9787 TIME...MOT...LOC 1504Z 150DEG 28KT 2920 9787 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 241512 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1013 AM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 TXC177-187-255-493-241523- /O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-080724T1515Z/ GUADALUPE TX-GONZALES TX-WILSON TX-KARNES TX- 1013 AM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KARNES...NORTHEASTERN WILSON...SOUTHWESTERN GONZALES AND EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2928 9812 2941 9781 2910 9765 2899 9787 TIME...MOT...LOC 1513Z 150DEG 33KT 2930 9793 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde, Zavala | 27 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 10:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 11:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 11:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 12:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:41 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | Dimmit, Frio, Maverick, Zavala | 5 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 29 min |
| Jul 24, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 21 min |
| Jul 24, 2:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Burnet, Fayette, Lee, Llano, Travis and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell, DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Lavaca and 1 more | 117 min |
| Jul 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 6:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 119 min |
| Jul 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Comal | 116 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.