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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2008, 7:21 PM CDT for Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 14, 2008, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burnet County, TX, Llano County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:29 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Llano, TX | NUMEROUS REPORTS IN THE CITY OF LLANO |
| May 14, 7:31 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 N Llano, TX | |
| May 14, 7:42 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 3 Ne Castell, TX | ROTATION IN CLOUDS |
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 14, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 150021 TOREWX TXC053-299-150045- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0016.080515T0021Z-080515T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 721 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL BURNET COUNTY... EASTERN LLANO COUNTY... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT. * AT 717 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LLANO...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LONE GROVE BY 730 PM CDT... STOLZ BY 735 PM CDT... GAINESVILLE AND BLUFFTON BY 740 PM CDT... BUCHANAN DAM...KINGSLAND AND INKS LAKE STATE PARK BY 745 PM CDT... 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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3089 9828 3055 9830 3063 9878 3084 9876 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 273DEG 25KT 3075 9866 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KEWX 150038 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 739 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 TXC053-299-150045- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-080515T0045Z/ BURNET TX-LLANO TX- 739 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR EASTERN LLANO AND WEST CENTRAL BURNET COUNTIES... AT 734 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STOLZ...OR 7 MILES EAST OF LLANO... MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BUCHANAN DAM...KINGSLAND AND INKS LAKE STATE PARK BY 745 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3089 9828 3055 9830 3063 9878 3084 9876 TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 273DEG 25KT 3074 9851 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Frio, Zavala | 62 min |
| May 14, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 27 min |
| May 14, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 59 min |
| May 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson | 46 min |
| May 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 117 min |
| May 14, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 43 min |
| May 14, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 53 min |
| May 14, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 50 min |
| May 14, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 62 min |
| May 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 2 hr |
| May 14, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 48 min |
| May 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson | 40 min |
| May 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 60 min |
| May 14, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 44 min |
| May 14, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 53 min |
| May 14, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 18 min |
| May 14, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 47 min |
| May 15, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 36 min |
| May 15, 12:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 114 min |
| May 15, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 36 min |
| May 15, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee, Travis | 34 min |
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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.