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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

February 22, 2000Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2000, 8:45 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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: Feb 22, 2000, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 60 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
Feb 22, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 230248
SVRSAT
TXC053-230345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
845 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  BURNET COUNTY

* UNTIL 945 PM CST 

* AT 845 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURNET...OR ABOUT 12    
MILES NORTH OF BUCHANAN DAM...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.  THE STORM WILL 
MOVE ACROSS THE NORTH END OF BUCHANAN DAM BRINGING STRONG WINDS. 

LARGE HAIL IS ALSO 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.

.END/ LAT...LON 3099 9840 3070 9832 3094 9795 3099 9808

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 7:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	28 min
Feb 22, 8:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards	67 min
Feb 22, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	56 min
Feb 22, 8:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	67 min
Feb 22, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	65 min
Feb 22, 8:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	58 min
Feb 22, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real	66 min
Feb 22, 8:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	31 min
Feb 22, 9:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards	38 min
Feb 22, 9:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	30 min
Feb 22, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	59 min
Feb 22, 9:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	35 min
Feb 22, 10:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	39 min
Feb 22, 10:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	39 min
Feb 22, 11:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	65 min
Feb 22, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Uvalde, Zavala	60 min
Feb 22, 11:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Zavala	76 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.