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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 2:34 AM CST for Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2000, 2:34 AM CST (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burnet County, TX, Llano 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 1241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 290839 SVRSAT TXC053-299-290930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 234 AM CST WED MAR 29 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 330 AM CST * AT 234 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF TOW...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF LLANO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD LAKE BUCHANAN...TOW...BLUFFTON AND LONE GROVE. * PEA TO MARBLE-SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THIS STORM 8 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF LLANO WITHIN THE PAST 15 MINUTES. 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. .END/ LAT...LON 3090 9883 3077F 9867 3094 9806 3130 9835
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco | 59 min |
| Mar 28, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 64 min |
| Mar 28, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hall | 24 min |
| Mar 28, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 3:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 6:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 27 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.