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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2009, 1:03 PM CDT for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2009, 1:03 PM CDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2009, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Atascosa County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:16 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Se Charlotte, TX | TREES BLOWN DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 26, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 261803 TOREWX TXC013-261830- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0003.090326T1803Z-090326T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 103 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL ATASCOSA COUNTY... * UNTIL 130 PM CDT. * AT 102 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTHWESTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT LOCATIONS ALONG TX HIGHWAY 16 IN SOUTHERN ATASCOSA COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && LAT...LON 2863 9867 2873 9878 2884 9866 2864 9841 TIME...MOT...LOC 1802Z 313DEG 25KT 2872 9869 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:04 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Kerr and 7 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 26, 8:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 9:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 10:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Medina, Uvalde | 62 min |
| Mar 26, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina, Real, Uvalde | 62 min |
| Mar 26, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina, Zavala | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina | 63 min |
| Mar 26, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Wilson | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes | 66 min |
| Mar 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Blanco, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 25 more | 29 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.