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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2010, 4:16 PM CDT for Fayette County, Gonzales County, Lavaca 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
- Sep 7, 2010, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2010, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
105 WFUS54 KEWX 072116 TOREWX TXC149-177-285-072145- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0009.100907T2116Z-100907T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 416 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 445 PM CDT. * AT 416 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF MOULTON...OR ABOUT NEAR SHINER...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE STORM IS STILL MOVING ALONG HIGHWAY 95. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HENKHAUS. 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 2968 9719 2969 9707 2945 9712 2946 9717 TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 181DEG 23KT 2950 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, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 23 min |
| 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, 4:36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.