Video captures microburst wind event over Austin on Monday

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Tree limb damage and a destroyed billboard on North Lamar Boulevard Monday were the result of a weather phenomenon known as a “microburst,” and it was captured on video.
Downburst, or on a smaller scale, microburst winds are not rare in Texas thunderstorms, but capturing them in a video time lapse is. That is exactly what Victor Ituarte did while heavy thunderstorms moved over the middle of Austin late Monday afternoon.
His video captured the dramatic moment the