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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2006, 9:22 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2006, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2006, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Burnet County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Marble Falls, TX | POWER LINES DOWN |
| Apr 28, 9:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Marble Falls, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 752 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 290222 TOREWX TXC053-290245- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0027.060429T0222Z-060429T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 922 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BURNET * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 918 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MEADOWLAKES...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MARBLE FALLS AND SPICEWOOD. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3067 9840 3051 9832 3046 9813 3071 9802 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 290237 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 937 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006 TXC053-290245- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-060429T0245Z/ BURNET TX- 937 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR BURNET COUNTY... AT 930 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MARBLE FALLS... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3067 9840 3051 9832 3046 9813 3071 9802 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 11:45 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Maverick, Zavala | 4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.