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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 16, 2004Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 2004, 5:56 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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: Nov 16, 2004, 5:56 PM CST (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2004, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burnet County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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-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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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.

689 
WFUS54 KEWX 162356
TOREWX
TXC053-170030-
/X.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0001.041116T2356Z-041117T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
556 PM CST TUE NOV 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  BURNET

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 548 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF BURNET...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER
YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER
PROTECTION.

LAT...LON 3055 9825 3058 9804 3096 9809 3092 9835

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 16, 7:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Val Verde	4 hr
Nov 16, 12:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Real, Uvalde	2 hr
Nov 16, 1:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	113 min
Nov 16, 3:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real, Uvalde and 1 more	6 hr
Nov 16, 5:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Frio, Medina	6 hr

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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.