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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 8, 2016Dimmit County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2016, 9:31 PM CST for Dimmit County, Texas. It was in force for 17 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: Mar 8, 2016, 9:31 PM CST (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2016, 9:48 PM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Dimmit County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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
Mar 8, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

203 
WFUS54 KEWX 090331
TOREWX
TXC127-090415-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0003.160309T0331Z-160309T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
931 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DIMMIT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST
    
* AT 931 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR BIG WELLS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  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...
  BIG WELLS AROUND 950 PM CST. 
  LAS VEGAS AROUND 1015 PM CST. 

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 2842 9965 2852 9968 2864 9941 2864 9940
      2862 9939 2861 9940 2840 9940
TIME...MOT...LOC 0331Z 252DEG 7KT 2847 9958 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

MO

1 follow-up statement

061 
WWUS54 KEWX 090348
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
948 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016

TXC127-090357-
/O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160309T0415Z/
DIMMIT TX-
948 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN DIMMIT COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL
ROTATIONS MAY WARRANT NEW TORNADO WARNINGS IN DIMMIT COUNTY IN THE
NEXT HOUR OR TWO.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 2842 9965 2852 9968 2864 9941 2864 9940
      2862 9939 2861 9940 2840 9940
TIME...MOT...LOC 0344Z 252DEG 7KT 2848 9955 

$$

MO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 6:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	54 min
Mar 8, 6:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	59 min
Mar 8, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Zavala	46 min
Mar 8, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	50 min
Mar 8, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kerr, Real	59 min
Mar 8, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Zavala	64 min
Mar 8, 7:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	79 min
Mar 8, 8:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	44 min
Mar 8, 8:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	56 min
Mar 8, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real	48 min
Mar 8, 8:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	58 min
Mar 8, 8:33 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Uvalde	3 hr
Mar 8, 8:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	60 min
Mar 8, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	72 min
Mar 8, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina, Uvalde	70 min
Mar 8, 9:04 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Dimmit, Zavala	3 hr
Mar 8, 9:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	53 min
Mar 8, 9:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Zavala	56 min
Mar 8, 9:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	32 min
Mar 8, 10:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	60 min
Mar 8, 10:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina	33 min
Mar 8, 10:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	65 min
Mar 8, 10:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	59 min
Mar 8, 10:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	27 min
Mar 8, 11:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	61 min
Mar 8, 11:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	39 min
Mar 8, 11:39 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet	51 min
Mar 8, 11:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Medina	54 min
Mar 8, 11:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	41 min
Mar 9, 12:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie	28 min
Mar 9, 12:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	46 min
Mar 9, 12:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	42 min
Mar 9, 12:36 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 9 more	7 hr
Mar 9, 12:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar	39 min
Mar 9, 1:02 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal, Hays	43 min
Mar 9, 1:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	46 min
Mar 9, 1:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	51 min
Mar 9, 1:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	60 min
Mar 9, 1:43 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis, Williamson	4 hr
Mar 9, 1:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop	38 min
Mar 9, 1:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal	37 min
Mar 9, 3:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	36 min
Mar 9, 4:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	30 min
Mar 9, 9:20 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	115 min
Mar 9, 9:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	51 min
Mar 9, 9:34 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Karnes	26 min
Mar 9, 1:49 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	116 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.