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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2008, 12:46 PM CDT for Bexar County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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, 12:46 PM CDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bexar County, TX, Medina County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 241746 TOREWX TXC029-325-241815- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0027.080724T1746Z-080724T1815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1246 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BEXAR COUNTY... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTY... * UNTIL 115 PM CDT. * AT 1242 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SEA WORLD AND LACKLAND AFB...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF SAN ANTONIO...MOVING NORTH AT 23 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HELOTES BY 110 PM CDT... CROSS MOUNTAIN BY 115 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 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2964 9884 2973 9867 2941 9852 2934 9870 TIME...MOT...LOC 1746Z 164DEG 20KT 2945 9863 $$
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, 9:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 20 min |
| 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, 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.