Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2008, 1:29 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 1:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 241830
TOREWX
TXC029-241915-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0029.080724T1829Z-080724T1915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
129 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BEXAR COUNTY...
* UNTIL 215 PM CDT.
* AT 124 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ON THE WEST SIDE OF
SAN ANTONIO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 34 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SHAVANO PARK BY 140 PM CDT...
LEON SPRINGS AND THE DOMINION BY 150 PM CDT...
6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIR OAKS RANCH BY 155 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 2954 9867 2957 9862 2973 9870 2974 9864
2945 9846 2942 9858
TIME...MOT...LOC 1829Z 147DEG 30KT 2949 9857
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KEWX 241850
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
149 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008
TXC029-241859-
/O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-080724T1915Z/
BEXAR TX-
149 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BEXAR COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
A STORM LOCATED ROUGHLY 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HELOTES CONTINUES TO
SHOW A POTENTIAL FOR ROTATION BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A
TORNADO AT THIS TIME. RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST BEXAR COUNTY SHOULD
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE
SHELTER IF A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2954 9867 2957 9862 2973 9870 2974 9864
2945 9846 2942 9858
TIME...MOT...LOC 1849Z 147DEG 21KT 2958 9864
$$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, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina | 36 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.