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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 30, 2015Bexar County, Wilson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 2015, 5:58 AM CDT for Bexar County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 12 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: Oct 30, 2015, 5:58 AM CDT (10:58 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 2015, 6:10 AM CDT
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Bexar County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 1304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

380 
WFUS54 KEWX 301058
TOREWX
TXC029-493-301130-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0043.151030T1058Z-151030T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
558 AM CDT FRI OCT 30 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN BEXAR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT
    
* AT 558 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CALAVERAS LAKE...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  FLORESVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ST. HEDWIG AROUND 620 AM CDT.
  SCHERTZ AROUND 630 AM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
FRIENDLY CORNER...SAYERS...MARTINEZ...PARITA...RANDOLPH AFB...
CONVERSE AND ADKINS.

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 2952 9836 2953 9820 2950 9818 2950 9817
      2948 9816 2948 9812 2947 9812 2943 9814
      2938 9812 2936 9811 2925 9813 2922 9833
TIME...MOT...LOC 1058Z 171DEG 37KT 2927 9824 

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

$$

ALLEN

1 follow-up statement

593 
WWUS54 KEWX 301110
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
610 AM CDT FRI OCT 30 2015

TXC029-493-301120-
/O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-151030T1130Z/
WILSON TX-BEXAR TX-
610 AM CDT FRI OCT 30 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WILSON AND SOUTHEASTERN BEXAR
COUNTIES 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.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND
HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

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

LAT...LON 2952 9836 2953 9820 2950 9818 2950 9817
      2948 9816 2948 9812 2947 9812 2943 9814
      2938 9812 2936 9811 2925 9813 2922 9833
TIME...MOT...LOC 1108Z 171DEG 37KT 2939 9826 

$$

ALLEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	38 min
Oct 30, 3:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Zavala	23 min
Oct 30, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	45 min
Oct 30, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	42 min
Oct 30, 4:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	52 min
Oct 30, 4:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Medina	35 min
Oct 30, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Hays	51 min
Oct 30, 4:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 18 more	29 hr
Oct 30, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Hays	50 min
Oct 30, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera	18 min
Oct 30, 4:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Kendall	4 hr
Oct 30, 4:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie, Kerr	3 hr
Oct 30, 5:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall	4 hr
Oct 30, 5:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Wilson	46 min
Oct 30, 5:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	3 hr
Oct 30, 5:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	26 min
Oct 30, 5:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina, Uvalde	4 hr
Oct 30, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	45 min
Oct 30, 6:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson	3 hr
Oct 30, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	32 min
Oct 30, 6:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Wilson	38 min
Oct 30, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	54 min
Oct 30, 6:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	39 min
Oct 30, 6:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	3 hr
Oct 30, 7:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal	41 min
Oct 30, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	83 min
Oct 30, 7:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	27 min
Oct 30, 7:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays	26 min
Oct 30, 7:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson	3 hr
Oct 30, 7:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	16 hr
Oct 30, 8:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe	20 hr
Oct 30, 8:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	20 hr
Oct 30, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays	53 min
Oct 30, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Hays	52 min
Oct 30, 8:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Hays, Travis	54 min
Oct 30, 8:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Hays	38 hr
Oct 30, 8:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Hays	8 hr
Oct 30, 8:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	27 hr
Oct 30, 8:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	46 hr
Oct 30, 8:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	31 hr
Oct 30, 8:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	51 hr
Oct 30, 8:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Karnes	4 days
Oct 30, 8:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Hays, Travis	27 min
Oct 30, 8:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis, Williamson	13 hr
Oct 30, 9:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Kendall	5 hr
Oct 30, 9:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	61 min
Oct 30, 9:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Travis	28 min
Oct 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal	18 hr
Oct 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	29 hr
Oct 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	4 days
Oct 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	50 hr
Oct 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Gonzales	4 days
Oct 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt	5 days
Oct 30, 9:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal	16 hr
Oct 30, 9:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	13 hr
Oct 30, 9:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	52 min
Oct 30, 10:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Travis	6 hr
Oct 30, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	29 min
Oct 30, 10:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Travis	13 min
Oct 30, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis	65 min
Oct 30, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco	22 hr
Oct 30, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	31 hr
Oct 30, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	29 hr
Oct 30, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	58 hr
Oct 30, 10:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe	28 hr
Oct 30, 10:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Caldwell	49 min
Oct 30, 11:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	44 min
Oct 30, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lee	40 min
Oct 30, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	39 min
Oct 30, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays	3 hr
Oct 30, 1:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Kendall, Llano	3 hr
Oct 30, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette	43 min
Oct 30, 2:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	16 hr
Oct 30, 3:18 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Williamson	29 hr
Oct 30, 3:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Karnes	4 days
Oct 30, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	24 min
Oct 30, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	65 min
Oct 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	44 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.