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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 2, 2000Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 6:08 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
Apr 2, 2000, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burnet County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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 2000-04-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2000-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

746 
WUUS54 KEWX 022308
SVRSAT
TXC053-030000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
608 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

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

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURNET...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF KINGSLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 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.


.END/ LAT...LON 3082 9838 3060 9835 3093 9790 3102 9818

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 1, 8:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa71 min
Apr 1, 8:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet67 min
Apr 1, 8:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson67 min
Apr 1, 9:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar56 min
Apr 1, 10:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall63 min
Apr 1, 10:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa65 min
Apr 1, 10:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco54 min
Apr 2, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet60 min
Apr 2, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio48 min
Apr 2, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar58 min
Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa42 min
Apr 2, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBexar45 min
Apr 2, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe43 min
Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet60 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.