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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 7:13 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2000, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Burnet County, TX
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 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
316 WUUS54 KEWX 130014 SVRSAT TXC053-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 713 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BURNET COUNTY * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF BURNET...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF LAMPASAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 3102 9843 3066 9839 3074 9800 3104 9792
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 62 min |
| May 12, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 57 min |
| May 12, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 63 min |
| May 12, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 35 min |
| May 12, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 63 min |
| May 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 59 min |
| May 12, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 65 min |
| May 12, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 67 min |
| May 12, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 55 min |
| May 12, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 55 min |
| May 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 64 min |
| May 13, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 64 min |
| May 13, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.