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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2012, 6:07 PM CDT for Frio County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 19, 2012, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Frio County, TX, Medina County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:39 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 6 Ese Frio Town, TX | INTERSECTION OF US57 AND FM140 WALL CLOUD WENT OVER HOUSE |
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 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 2784 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.3
- Supercell composite
- 18.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
222 WFUS54 KEWX 192307 TOREWX TXC163-325-192345- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0005.120319T2307Z-120319T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 607 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FRIO COUNTY... SOUTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTY... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT. * AT 605 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FRIO TOWN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF PEARSALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE YANCEY...MOORE...SCHATTEL... BIRY...BIG FOOT...DEVINE...PEARSON...NOONAN...NATALIA AND CASTROVILLE. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2942 9883 2892 9882 2884 9941 2904 9941 TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 241DEG 41KT 2897 9930 $$
1 follow-up statement
705 WWUS54 KEWX 192316 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 616 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 TXC163-325-192345- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120319T2345Z/ MEDINA TX-FRIO TX- 616 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN FRIO AND SOUTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTIES... AT 615 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FRIO TOWN...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEARSALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE YANCEY...THREE OAKS... BIRY...PEARSON...NOONAN...SCHATTEL...MOORE...BIG FOOT...NATALIA... DEVINE AND CASTROVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2942 9883 2892 9882 2884 9941 2904 9941 TIME...MOT...LOC 2316Z 243DEG 28KT 2898 9930 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Zavala | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Medina, Uvalde | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 55 min |
Nearby
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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.