Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2008, 7:59 PM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 17, 2008, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 8:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Bandera County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KEWX 180059
TOREWX
TXC019-180145-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0003.080318T0059Z-080318T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
759 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY...
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT.
* AT 758 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MEDINA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHERN BANDERA COUNTY AT 810 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 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2992 9932 2991 9918 2984 9903 2972 9925
2976 9939
TIME...MOT...LOC 0059Z 216DEG 18KT 2982 9926
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KEWX 180114
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
814 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
TXC019-180145-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080318T0145Z/
BANDERA TX-
814 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
BANDERA COUNTY...
AT 810 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO.
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDINA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2992 9932 2991 9918 2984 9903 2972 9925
2976 9939
TIME...MOT...LOC 0114Z 216DEG 18KT 2988 9921
$$000
WWUS54 KEWX 180122
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
821 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
TXC019-180131-
/O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080318T0145Z/
BANDERA TX-
821 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
AT 820 PM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM AND ASSOCIATED TORNADO HAS MOVED
OUT OF CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY INTO KERR COUNTY. AS A RESULT...THE
TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2992 9932 2991 9918 2984 9903 2972 9925
2976 9939
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 216DEG 18KT 2991 9919
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 17, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 1:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 35 min |
| Mar 18, 1:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 2:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 16 min |
| Mar 18, 2:32 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 67 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.