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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 6, 2006Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2006, 12:37 AM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 3 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: May 6, 2006, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2006, 1:00 AM 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
May 6, 12:59 AM CDT	HAIL 2.75	11 Nnw Burnet, TX	BASEBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR LAKE VICTOR.
May 6, 1:01 AM CDT	HAIL 4	12 Nnw Burnet, TX	SHERIFF REPORT LARGE HAIL NEAR LAKE VICTOR.
May 6, 1:10 AM CDT	HAIL 2	20 Ne Burnet, TX	COOP OBSERVER REPORT HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.

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
May 5, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEWX 060536
TOREWX
TXC053-060600-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0033.060506T0537Z-060506T0600Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1237 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  BURNET

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1236 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF BURNET...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3100 9836 3073 9831 3082 9796 3101 9795

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 060549
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1249 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2006

TXC053-060600-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-060506T0600Z/
BURNET TX-
1249 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR BURNET
COUNTY...

AT 1242 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THE POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM
WAS LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF BRIGGS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF 
LAMPASAS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 3102 9833 3082 9827 3080 9796 3092 9784
      3104 9792

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	38 min
May 5, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	53 min
May 5, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	63 min
May 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	43 min
May 5, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Atascosa	31 min
May 5, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	59 min
May 6, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	65 min
May 6, 12:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet	3 hr
May 6, 12:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Burnet	31 min
May 6, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	65 min
May 6, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	66 min
May 6, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	62 min
May 6, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	81 min
May 6, 2:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Williamson	3 hr
May 6, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Llano	3 hr
May 6, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	42 min
May 6, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	68 min
May 6, 2:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	4 hr
May 6, 2:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie	3 hr
May 6, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	60 min
May 6, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	55 min
May 6, 4:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Hays	3 hr
May 6, 4:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kerr	3 hr
May 6, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	54 min
May 6, 5:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Gonzales	3 hr
May 6, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	33 min
May 6, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	67 min
May 6, 6:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco	115 min
May 6, 6:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera	3 hr
May 6, 6:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Real	2 hr
May 6, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	55 min
May 6, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	67 min
May 6, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera	58 min
May 6, 7:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	2 hr
May 6, 7:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kerr	113 min
May 6, 8:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	116 min
May 6, 8:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards	3 hr
May 6, 8:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Wilson	2 hr
May 6, 9:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	3 hr
May 6, 9:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	3 hr
May 6, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	82 min
May 6, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	73 min
May 6, 6:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	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.