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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2009, 7:25 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. 5 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
- Jun 11, 2009, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2009, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Burnet County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:28 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 66 | Burnet, TX | KBMQ GUST 58KTS |
| Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Burnet, TX | AT SO IN BURNET |
| Jun 11, 7:45 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 12 N Burnet, TX | NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN AND SOME TRANSFORMERS ON FIRE |
| Jun 11, 7:53 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Burnet, TX | KBMQ ASOS |
| Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 64 | Burnet, TX | KBMQ ASOS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:32 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 233 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
- 2849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 120025 TOREWX TXC053-120115- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0016.090612T0025Z-090612T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 725 PM CDT THU JUN 11 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BURNET COUNTY... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT. * AT 723 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LAKE VICTOR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURNET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SHADY GROVE...JOPPA...OATMEAL AND BERTRAM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3087 9794 3063 9814 3086 9830 3101 9819 TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 300DEG 27KT 3089 9815 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 120030 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 730 PM CDT THU JUN 11 2009 TXC053-120115- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-090612T0115Z/ BURNET TX- 730 PM CDT THU JUN 11 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL BURNET COUNTY... AT 727 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE VICTOR...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURNET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TOWN OF BERTRAM MAY BE IMPACTED BY A TORNADO BY 805 PM. VERY STRONG WINDS AND BASEBALL SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SHADY GROVE...JOPPA... BERTRAM AND OATMEAL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3087 9794 3063 9814 3086 9830 3101 9819 TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 315DEG 29KT 3084 9813 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 120100 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 800 PM CDT THU JUN 11 2009 TXC053-120109- /O.CAN.KEWX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-090612T0115Z/ BURNET TX- 800 PM CDT THU JUN 11 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BURNET COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE TORNADO HAS SINCE MOVED INTO WILLIAMSON COUNTY. HOWEVER...SEVERE WEATHER...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAINS LIKELY OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN BURNET COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3087 9794 3063 9814 3086 9830 3101 9819 TIME...MOT...LOC 0059Z 315DEG 29KT 3067 9793 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano, Williamson | 111 min |
| Jun 11, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.