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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 12, 2014Burnet County, Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2014, 7:58 PM CDT for Burnet County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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 12, 2014, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2014, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Burnet County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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
Jun 12, 8:11 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	8 Nw Briggs, TX	BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUD REPORT SOUTH OF WATSON.
Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT	TORNADO	7 Wnw Briggs, TX	TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GROUND BY SEVERAL STORM CHASERS.

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 12, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 1037 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

726 
WFUS54 KEWX 130058
TOREWX
TXC053-491-130130-
/O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0010.140613T0058Z-140613T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
758 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BURNET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BERTRAM...
  NORTHWESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 755 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF
  WATSON...OR 9 MILES EAST OF LAMPASAS...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES EAST OF SUNNYLANE BY 805 PM CDT...
  WATSON BY 810 PM CDT...
  BRIGGS...JOPPA AND 7 MILES EAST OF SHADY GROVE BY 825 PM CDT...
  MAHOMET...7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANDICE AND 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  BERTRAM BY 830 PM CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL 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 MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3075 9774 3067 9813 3104 9816 3105 9791
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 342DEG 21KT 3101 9803

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	44 min
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	75 min
Jun 12, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real, Uvalde	44 min
Jun 12, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Williamson	57 min
Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real	106 min
Jun 12, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Real, Uvalde	43 min
Jun 12, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	40 min
Jun 12, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real, Uvalde	40 min
Jun 12, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Burnet	35 min
Jun 12, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	43 min
Jun 12, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	38 min
Jun 12, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	47 min
Jun 12, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde, Zavala	25 min
Jun 12, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	38 min
Jun 12, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Burnet, Travis, Williamson	43 min
Jun 12, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	24 min
Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Frio, Uvalde, Zavala	24 min
Jun 12, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	57 min
Jun 12, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Hays, Travis	41 min
Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala	53 min
Jun 12, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Travis	34 min
Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	34 min
Jun 12, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Llano	25 min
Jun 12, 10:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Hays, Llano, Travis, Williamson	110 min
Jun 12, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	47 min
Jun 12, 10:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala	2 hr
Jun 12, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	36 min
Jun 12, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	34 min
Jun 12, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Hays	59 min
Jun 12, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	34 min
Jun 12, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal	32 min
Jun 12, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	28 min
Jun 12, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	36 min
Jun 12, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	28 min
Jun 12, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	25 min
Jun 12, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Zavala	47 min
Jun 12, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, DeWitt, Gonzales, Wilson	56 min
Jun 12, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	24 min
Jun 12, 11:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop	51 min
Jun 12, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	31 min
Jun 13, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca and 1 more	65 min
Jun 13, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	33 min
Jun 13, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	61 min
Jun 13, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Karnes	60 min
Jun 13, 1:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	28 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.