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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 2009, 4:48 PM CDT for Blanco County, Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min. 7 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
- Mar 25, 2009, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2009, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Llano County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:53 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Horseshoe Bay, TX | |
| Mar 25, 4:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 Wsw Horseshoe Bay, TX | GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY COCORAHS OBSERVER. STRONG WINDS IN ADVANCE OF HAIL. |
| Mar 25, 4:57 PM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | Granite Shoals, TX | WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH |
| Mar 25, 5:08 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Marble Falls, TX | AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED HALF DOLLAR HAIL IN MARBLE FALLS AT THE INTERSECTION OF FM 1431 AND HIGHWAY 281. |
| Mar 25, 5:11 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Marble Falls, TX | |
| Mar 25, 5:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Spicewood, TX | |
| Mar 25, 5:25 PM CDT | HAIL 2.5 | Spicewood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS54 KEWX 252200 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 400 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 TXC031-053-299-252230- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090325T2230Z/ BURNET TX-LLANO TX-BLANCO TX- 400 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN BLANCO...SOUTHEASTERN LLANO AND SOUTHWESTERN BURNET COUNTIES... AT 458 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HORSESHOE BAY...OR 7 MILES WEST OF MARBLE FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH TOWARD MARBLE FALLS. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL IN THE HORSE SHOE BAY AREA IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE COTTONWOOD SHORES... MEADOWLAKES...SPICEWOOD AND SMITHWICK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3069 9809 3040 9814 3052 9849 3059 9848 TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 274DEG 24KT 3054 9837 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WFUS54 KEWX 252148 TOREWX TXC031-053-299-252230- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0002.090325T2148Z-090325T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 448 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BLANCO COUNTY... SOUTHWESTERN BURNET COUNTY... SOUTHEASTERN LLANO COUNTY... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT. * AT 448 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SUNRISE BEACH VILLAGE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF KINGSLAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GRANITE SHOALS...HORSESHOE BAY...MEADOWLAKES...MARBLE FALLS...SPICEWOOD AND SMITHWICK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3069 9809 3040 9814 3052 9849 3059 9848 TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 274DEG 24KT 3055 9845 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 252230 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 530 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 TXC031-053-299-252238- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090325T2230Z/ BURNET TX-LLANO TX-BLANCO TX- 530 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BLANCO...SOUTHEASTERN LLANO AND SOUTHWESTERN BURNET COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 530 PM CDT... THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...HOWEVER THE STORM REMAINS SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS WESTERN TRAVIS COUNTY MOVING TOWARD WEST AUSTIN AND LAGO VISTA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3069 9809 3040 9814 3052 9849 3059 9848 TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 274DEG 24KT 3053 9815 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 46 min |
| Mar 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 6:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 100 min |
| Mar 25, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 40 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.