andyhb Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Tornado emergency is needed here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Tornado pic from Devine, TX, on KSAT's FB page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 No tornado emergency for a damaging tornado outside a major met area? THE PUBLIC REPORTED A DAMAGING TORNADO ON THE GROUND 2 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF LYTLE. AT 814 PM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 This has me very concerned, San Antonio is a huge sprawling metro area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye05 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Storm further south of San Antonio starting to crank up now too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 SCIT brings it right over the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upsloper Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 High helicity environment near San Antonio. Sfc winds have a strong easterly component. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 This has me very concerned, San Antonio is a huge sprawling metro area. The majority of the pop is to the north of downtown, dangerous situation regardless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 100 KT G2G couplet east of Lytle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 It may have turned left, looping it, it sure looks like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyMatt Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Fort Sam Houston is locked down. Let a bunch of my Navy buds know. Live coverage on TV now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 I don't have ρhv available, but I think that might be debris SW of San Antonio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upsloper Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 It may have turned left, looping it, it sure looks like it. Yeah, the meso definitely shifted north a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernNJ Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The circulation appears to be right on I-35, between Lytle and Von Ormy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye05 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Still a fair distance from the actual metro area. Hope that this dies out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 That leeside low across S Texas is really overperforming based off progs a day ago. Winds backed nearly straight out of the SE...almost a quasi warm front look in the surface maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 It may have turned left, looping it, it sure looks like it. ever so slightly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 SPC update, gonna be a long night: MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0297 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0822 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 AREAS AFFECTED...SCNTRL THROUGH NERN TX CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 85...87...89... VALID 200122Z - 200215Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TORNADO WATCH 85...87...89...CONTINUES. GREATEST TORNADO THREAT IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST ACROSS PORTIONS OF SCNTRL TX INCLUDING THE TX HILL COUNTRY AREA THIS EVENING. AT LEAST TWO TORNADIC SUPERCELLS WERE IN PROGRESS AS OF 0130Z OVER SCNTRL TX INCLUDING ONE MOVING INTO THE SAN ANTONIO AREA. STORMS HAVE INCREASED AND BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED ON SWRN PORTION OF CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OVER SCNTRL TX WEST OF THE SAN ANTONIO AREA. A COUPLE OF OTHER DISCRETE AND LIKELY TORNADIC SUPERCELLS HAVE DEVELOPED EAST OF THIS BOUNDARY INCLUDING ONE IN PROXIMITY TO SAN ANTONIO. THESE STORMS HAVE INTENSIFIED AS THEY BEGIN TO INTERACT WITH THE RICHER MOISTURE OVER SCNTRL TX WHERE MLCAPE IS NEAR 3000 J/KG AND LARGE HODOGRAPHS EXIST. DEEPER FORCING FOR ASCENT ATTENDING AN IMPULSE MOVING THROUGH BASE OF LARGE SCALE UPPER TROUGH IS CATCHING UP WITH WARM SECTOR AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO PROMOTE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. THREAT FOR VERY LARGE HAIL...TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WIND WILL PERSIST NEXT FEW HOURS. ..DIAL.. 03/20/2012 ATTN...WFO...SHV...HGX...FWD...CRP...EWX... LAT...LON 28720037 29680013 31079797 32059718 33849566 32959533 30959650 28319919 28720037 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 from TVN chaser Dick McGowan "Cone tornado heading into san Antonio. Can see power flashes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Live video: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9640849 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 833 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 TXC013-029-325-200200- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120320T0200Z/ MEDINA TX-BEXAR TX-ATASCOSA TX- 833 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ATASCOSA...SOUTHWESTERN BEXAR AND EAST CENTRAL MEDINA COUNTIES... AT 827 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A DAMAGING TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MIDWAY...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CASTROVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS TORNADO HAS PRODUCED DAMAGE NEAR I-35 AT NATALIA AT 806 PM. THE TORNADO WILL REACH MIDWAY BY 835 PM...AND NEAR VON ARMY... MACONA AND MANGUS CORNER ALONG LOOP 1604 BY 845 PM. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE AND LACKLAND AFB. LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE NEAR AND TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE TORNADO TRACK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgeeWx Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Precip starting to affect Nrn storm a bit, srn one has tons of juice ahead of it still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Update on the regular tornado warning. AT 827 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A DAMAGING TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MIDWAY...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CASTROVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS TORNADO HAS PRODUCED DAMAGE NEAR I-35 AT NATALIA AT 806 PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernNJ Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 A new storm near Uvalde may also require a TOR shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Timmer: "Watching a large tornado right now about 4 miles northeast of Lytle heading for San Antonio" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kens-5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Rotation just dissipated (again) from the cell on L2 and L3. We'll see if it can stay like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Couplet is gone on newest scan on lvl 3, maybe cycling. Looping it, it may look like its moving almost straight north now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Rotation just dissipated (again) from the cell on L2 and L3. We'll see if it can stay like this. The meso is monstrous on this thing...it may be cycling at just the wrong time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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