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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2010, 8:22 AM CDT for Bandera County, Bexar County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports 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
- May 14, 2010, 8:22 AM CDT (13:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2010, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Medina County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:45 AM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 5 Wsw Helotes, TX | A PARK RANGER AT GOVERNMENT CANYON STATE PARK REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. |
| May 14, 8:50 AM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | N Lakehills, TX | PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR LAKEHILLS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 3933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
917 WFUS54 KEWX 141322 TOREWX TXC019-029-325-141345- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0002.100514T1322Z-100514T1345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 822 AM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BANDERA COUNTY... NORTHWESTERN BEXAR COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTY... * UNTIL 845 AM CDT. * AT 818 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR RIO MEDINA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF CASTROVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CLIFF...MICO AND LAKEHILLS. 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 2967 9907 2971 9872 2941 9875 2939 9896 TIME...MOT...LOC 1322Z 172DEG 10KT 2949 9887 $$
1 follow-up statement
314 WWUS54 KEWX 141334 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 834 AM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 TXC019-029-325-141345- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100514T1345Z/ BANDERA TX-BEXAR TX-MEDINA TX- 834 AM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 AM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN MEDINA...NORTHWESTERN BEXAR AND SOUTHEASTERN BANDERA COUNTIES... AT 833 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MICO...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF CASTROVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SAN GEROMINO...BANDERA FALLS...SAN GERONIMO AND LAKEHILLS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A VEHICLE IS EASILY ROLLED AND CRUSHED BY A TORNADO. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN ONE. IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS CLOSE...LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE AND TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. COVER YOUR HEAD. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. && LAT...LON 2967 9907 2971 9872 2941 9875 2939 9896 TIME...MOT...LOC 1334Z 172DEG 10KT 2952 9888 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina, Uvalde | 46 min |
| May 14, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 44 min |
| May 14, 5:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 3 hr |
| May 14, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 48 min |
| May 14, 8:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 22 min |
| May 14, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 34 min |
| May 14, 9:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 113 min |
| May 14, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 4 hr |
| May 14, 10:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Medina | 2 hr |
| May 14, 10:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| May 14, 11:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 26 more | 26 days |
| May 14, 11:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 14, 12:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 14, 2:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar | 115 min |
| May 14, 3:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 54 hr |
| May 14, 4:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 5 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.