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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 7, 1988, 5:53 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 7, 1988, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 1988, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAUS 072355
TORAUS
TXC053-080045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
553 PM CST WED DEC 7 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...EASTERN BURNET
RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO WEST OF THE CITY OF BERTRAM MOVING
TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOM ES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 7, 5:10 PM CST, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 510 PM CST WED DEC 7 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST OF AUSTIN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSYORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST OF AUSTIN...MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MPH. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NORTH OF KERRVILLE TO LLANO AND BURNET...ALSO FROM EAST OF ELGIN TO NEAR CAMERON. A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO NOTED NEAR TEMPLE AND WACO EAST TO GROESBECK. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
Special weather statement, Dec 7, 5:27 PM CST, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 525 PM CST WED DEC 7 1988 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF BURNET... AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF BURNET. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WAS IT MOVES TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST ACROSS BURNET COUNTY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 52 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.