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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 26, 2000Burnet County, Llano County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 4:53 PM CST for Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
Mar 26, 2000, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Burnet County, TX, Llano County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 257 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-345 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 262255
SVRSAT
TXC053-299-270000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
453 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

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

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

* UNTIL 6 PM CST

* AT 453 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER   
LLANO...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  THE STORM IS MOVING TOWARD 
KINGSLAND...LAKE BUCHANAN AND BURNET. 

HAIL UP TO THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED 
WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR 
IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

.END/ LAT...LON 3079 9881 3066 9866 3051 9814 3121 9839

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 26, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
300 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS TO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA
THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE ITS PUSH SOUTHWARD THIS EVENING...
MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BY LATE TONIGHT AS UPPER TROUGH DIGS
INTO MIDWEST.  PROGRESSIVE PATTERN WILL PUSH SURFACE RIDGING EAST OF
AREA BY MONDAY EVENING BUT RIDGING OFFSHORE WILL PRECLUDE RETURN OF
GULF MOISTURE TUESDAY MORNING.  MID AND UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE WILL
RETURN TOMMORROW NIGHT AS UPPER RIDGE FLATTENS.  WEAK DISTURBANCE...
MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND DAYTIME HEATING TUESDAY MAY BE ENOUGH FOR
LOW POPS (SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS). MOISTURE CAPPED OFF WEDNESDAY
MORNING WITH STRONG WESTERLIES ALOFT. NEXT COLD FRONT ARRIVES EARLY
THURSDAY BUT LACK OF MOISTURE ALOFT MAY NIX PRECIPITATION
CHANCES.

PRELIMS UPDATED...
AUS 59/80/53/80 0000
SAT 62/83/55/80 0000
DRT 58/86/60/82 0000

.EWX...NONE.

02/06

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 6:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano68 min
Mar 25, 7:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano64 min
Mar 26, 5:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco58 min
Mar 26, 5:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson66 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.