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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2010, 3:37 PM CDT for Fayette County, Gonzales County, Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- Sep 7, 2010, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2010, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Lavaca County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:37 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 S Moulton, TX | POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF MOULTON NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 95 AND 271. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS POWER LINES DOWN AND A PARTIAL ROOF ON THE ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 1004 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
840 WFUS54 KEWX 072037 TOREWX TXC149-177-285-072100- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0007.100907T2037Z-100907T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 337 PM CDT TUE SEP 7 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GONZALES COUNTY... NORTHWESTERN LAVACA COUNTY... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT. * AT 332 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOULTON...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH ON HIGHWAY 95. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FLATONIA. 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 2976 9725 2977 9703 2950 9711 2950 9718 TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 180DEG 27KT 2956 9714 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 4:51 AM CDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Karnes, Wilson | 9 hr |
| Sep 7, 5:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 7:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal and 9 more | 112 min |
| Sep 7, 9:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal and 9 more | 102 min |
| Sep 7, 11:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Karnes and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Gillespie and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca | 23 min |
| Sep 7, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 117 min |
| Sep 7, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 4:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 33 min |
| Sep 7, 5:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis | 116 min |
| Sep 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 5:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar | 115 min |
| Sep 7, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 34 min |
| Sep 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 19 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.