Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2013, 6:06 AM CDT for Bexar County, Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
- May 25, 2013, 6:06 AM CDT (11:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2013, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
429 WFUS54 KEWX 251106 TOREWX TXC029-091-251130- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0006.130525T1106Z-130525T1130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 606 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL BEXAR COUNTY... CENTRAL COMAL COUNTY... * UNTIL 630 AM CDT. * AT 602 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STARTZVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF UNIVERSAL CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL CROSS FM 1863 NEAR THE INTERSECTION WITH FM 3009 AND HIGHWAY 46 NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF FM 3009 IN COMAL COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 2986 9843 2985 9820 2968 9827 2969 9841 TIME...MOT...LOC 1104Z 186DEG 15KT 2972 9835 $$
2 follow-up statements
321 WWUS54 KEWX 251125 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 625 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 TXC029-251132- /O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-130525T1130Z/ BEXAR TX- 625 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL BEXAR COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF BEXAR COUNTY. LAT...LON 2972 9827 2974 9840 2986 9843 2985 9820 TIME...MOT...LOC 1122Z 186DEG 13KT 2978 9834 $$ TXC091-251130- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-130525T1130Z/ COMAL TX- 625 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL COMAL COUNTY... AT 617 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STARTZVILLE...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANYON LAKE DAM...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE ALONG OR JUST WEST OF FM 3009 BETWEEN FM 1863 AND HIGHWAY 46. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 2972 9827 2974 9840 2986 9843 2985 9820 TIME...MOT...LOC 1122Z 186DEG 13KT 2978 9834 $$
724 WWUS54 KEWX 251131 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 631 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 TXC091-251141- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-130525T1130Z/ COMAL TX- 631 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL COMAL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE TORNADO DISSIPATED. LAT...LON 2972 9827 2974 9840 2986 9843 2985 9820 TIME...MOT...LOC 1125Z 186DEG 13KT 2979 9834 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar | 116 min |
| May 25, 4:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Kendall | 105 min |
| May 25, 5:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 116 min |
| May 25, 6:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 47 min |
| May 25, 8:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Comal | 116 min |
| May 25, 8:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 7 hr |
| May 25, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 15 more | 36 hr |
| May 25, 9:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 35 hr |
| May 25, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 24 hr |
| May 25, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 47 hr |
| May 25, 9:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 16 hr |
| May 25, 10:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 38 min |
| May 25, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar, DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 2 hr |
| May 25, 11:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 45 min |
| May 25, 11:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 43 min |
| May 25, 11:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 48 min |
| May 25, 11:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt, Gonzales and 5 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 35 min |
| May 25, 5:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 days |
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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.