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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2012, 1:56 AM CDT for Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2012, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2012, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:59 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
436
WFUS54 KEWX 140656
TOREWX
TXC053-299-140715-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0026.121014T0656Z-121014T0715Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
156 AM CDT SUN OCT 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL BURNET COUNTY...
EAST CENTRAL LLANO COUNTY...
* UNTIL 215 AM CDT.
* AT 153 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR INKS LAKE STATE
PARK...OR ABOUT NEAR BUCHANAN DAM...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BURNET.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3085 9820 3063 9822 3063 9840 3066 9850
3084 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 0656Z 273DEG 26KT 3075 9839
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 43 min |
| Oct 14, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 49 min |
| Oct 14, 2:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 46 min |
| Oct 14, 2:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.