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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 25, 2015Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2015, 7:14 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 10 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, 2015, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2015, 7:24 PM CDT
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 256 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 11.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

834 
WFUS54 KEWX 260014
TOREWX
TXC149-260045-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0035.150526T0014Z-150526T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
714 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
    
* AT 713 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER FAYETTEVILLE...OR 12 MILES EAST OF LA
  GRANGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  EAST CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  FAYETTEVILLE...WILLOW SPRINGS AND REK HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 2982 9669 2997 9678 3007 9662 3004 9662
      3001 9660 2996 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 242DEG 21KT 2993 9666 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

RUNYEN

1 follow-up statement

922 
WWUS54 KEWX 260024
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
724 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

TXC149-260033-
/O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-150526T0045Z/
FAYETTE TX-
724 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.

LAT...LON 2982 9669 2997 9678 3007 9662 3004 9662
      3001 9660 2996 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 242DEG 21KT 2996 9659 

$$

RUNYEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson	24 min
May 25, 7:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	19 hr
May 25, 7:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	46 hr
May 25, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson	60 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee, Travis, Williamson	4 hr
May 25, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	35 min
May 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	55 min
May 25, 8:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes, Lavaca	3 hr
May 25, 8:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette	58 hr
May 25, 8:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Fayette	71 hr
May 25, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	42 min
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	56 min
May 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	48 min
May 25, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt	4 days
May 25, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt	44 min
May 25, 11:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes, Lavaca	3 hr
May 25, 11:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall	3 hr
May 26, 12:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Hays	57 min
May 26, 4:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette	3 hr
May 26, 4:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Fayette	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.