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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2008, 1:09 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 36 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, 1:09 PM CDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Medina County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 241809 TOREWX TXC019-029-259-265-325-241845- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0028.080724T1809Z-080724T1845Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 109 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BANDERA COUNTY... NORTHWESTERN BEXAR COUNTY... WESTERN KENDALL COUNTY... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KERR COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTY... * UNTIL 145 PM CDT. * AT 105 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HELOTES...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF BOERNE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 34 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PIPE CREEK AND 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BANDERA FALLS BY 130 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 2981 9915 2999 9885 2957 9861 2947 9878 TIME...MOT...LOC 1809Z 145DEG 30KT 2960 9876 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 241821 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 121 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 TXC019-029-259-265-325-241845- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-080724T1845Z/ KERR TX-KENDALL TX-BANDERA TX-BEXAR TX-MEDINA TX- 121 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN MEDINA...NORTHWESTERN BEXAR...EASTERN BANDERA...WESTERN KENDALL AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KERR COUNTIES... AT 119 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SAN GERONIMO...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOERNE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 34 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PIPE CREEK...7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BANDERA FALLS AND 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOERNE BY 130 PM CDT... 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NELSON CITY BY 140 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2981 9915 2999 9885 2957 9861 2947 9878 TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 145DEG 30KT 2968 9883 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 241837 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 134 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 TXC019-029-259-265-325-241845- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-080724T1845Z/ KERR TX-KENDALL TX-BANDERA TX-BEXAR TX-MEDINA TX- 134 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN MEDINA...NORTHWESTERN BEXAR...EASTERN BANDERA...WESTERN KENDALL AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KERR COUNTIES... AT 128 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HELOTES...OR NEAR SAN ANTONIO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 34 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GREY FOREST...HELOTES...CROSS MOUNTAIN AND 8 MILES EAST OF SAN GEROMINO BY 145 PM CDT... ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTH OF PIPE CREEK. A BRIEF TOUCHDOWN IS POSSIBLE WITH CIRCULATION AS IT MOVES INTO RURAL KERR COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF CENTER POINT THROUGH 145 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2981 9915 2999 9885 2957 9861 2947 9878 TIME...MOT...LOC 1834Z 145DEG 30KT 2952 9860 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 241847 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 146 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 TXC019-029-259-265-325-241856- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-080724T1845Z/ KERR TX-KENDALL TX-BANDERA TX-BEXAR TX-MEDINA TX- 146 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MEDINA...NORTHWESTERN BEXAR...EASTERN BANDERA...WESTERN KENDALL AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KERR COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... A STORM LOCATED JUST EAST OF HELOTES MAY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL ROTATION BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A TORNADO AT THIS TIME. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2981 9915 2999 9885 2957 9861 2947 9878 TIME...MOT...LOC 1837Z 145DEG 30KT 2954 9862 $$
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, 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, 1:29 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.