Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2008, 8:16 PM CDT for Real 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
- Mar 17, 2008, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 180117 TOREWX TXC385-180145- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0004.080318T0116Z-080318T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 816 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN REAL COUNTY... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT. * AT 813 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LEAKEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN REAL COUNTY AT 830 PM CDT NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. 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 2987 9969 2990 9963 2964 9963 2965 9982 TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 213DEG 17KT 2972 9970 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 180142 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 841 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXC385-180151- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080318T0145Z/ REAL TX- 841 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN REAL COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 845 PM CDT... AT 840 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORM MOVED OUT OF REAL INTO BANDERA COUNTY. AS A RESULT...THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2987 9969 2990 9963 2964 9963 2965 9982 TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 213DEG 17KT 2982 9963 $$
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, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 23 min |
| Mar 17, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 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.