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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 23, 2001Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2001, 8:09 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2001, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burnet County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 8:40 PM CDTHail 1.75Burnet, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 251 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-24Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

462 
WUUS54 KEWX 240111
SVRSAT
TXC053-240145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
809 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 809 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A     
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST BURNET COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10    
  MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS BURNET COUNTY...SOME POSSIBLY 
SEVERE...THROUGH 845 PM.  DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...HAIL...
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING POSSIBLE. 
 
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM HIGH AREAS...METAL OBJECTS...AND TALL ISOLATED TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING THE TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

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.


LAT...LON 3052 9835 3047 9816 3104 9791 3103 9835

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 Jun 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
200 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2001

UPPER RIDGE BUILDS EASTWARD OVER CWA NEXT 48 HOURS.  RETROGRADING
CUT OFF LOW OVER EASTERN US PUSHES BACK BY MIDWAY IN THE PERIOD
ALLOWING WEAK DISTURBANCES TO SLIDE OVER THE CWA IN COL AREA IN THE
EXTENDED PERIOD.  STRONGEST OF THESE APPEARS TO BE AT END OF
EXTENDED AND WILL TEND TOWARD CURRENT DRY FORECAST FOR TIME BEING.
SEA BREEZE SHOULD BE ENHANCED ENOUGH TO WARRANT SLGHT CHANCE POPS
SOUTHEAST ZONES IN THE EXTENDED.  SHORTER TERM RIDGE SHOULD KEEP
SKIES SUNNY AND TEMPS WARM.  CONVECTION TONIGHT PUSHES SOUTH OF CWA
ALL BUT RIO GRANDE ZONES BY MIDNIGHT WITH SHOWERS LINGERING THERE
UNTIL SUNDAY AND DEPARTURE OF LAST BIT OF ENERGY.  THERMALLY DRIVEN
LOW LEVEL JET WILL AID SUNRISE STRATUS AFTER HIGH CLOUDS FROM MCS
DEPART.

PRELIMS...
AUS 70/93/70/94 2000
SAT 72/95/73/96 2000
DRT 72/100/72/100 22-0

.EWX...NONE.

10/05/PM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>192-202>206-217>220-240329-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
439 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2001

ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT HAS CAUSED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY THIS
AFTERNOON.  AS THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST...
THEY MAY MOVE OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD CAUSE BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AT
25 TO 50 MPH...SOME HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.  OCCASIONAL
DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE ANOTHER WEATHER HAZARD WITH THE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO PART OF THE
EVENING.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.