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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 2, 2003Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 2:57 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2003, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

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
Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 
WFUS54 KEWX 021957
TORSAT
TXC053-022030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
256 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  BURNET

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 254 PM...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES IN THE KINGSLAND 
  AND SANDY CREEK AREA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARBLE FALLS AT 300 PM


LAT...LON 3067 9839 3051 9836 3045 9815 3063 9811

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	61 min
Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Llano	61 min
Jun 2, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Blanco, Llano	52 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kendall	55 min
Jun 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kendall	67 min
Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Hays, Travis	60 min
Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal	55 min
Jun 2, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Hays	64 min
Jun 2, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	53 min
Jun 2, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar	34 min
Jun 2, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	56 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.