Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1986, 3:26 PM CST for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1986, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1986, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bastrop County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 032128 SVRAUS TXC021-055-453-209-032230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 326 PM CST MON MAR 3 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF TEXAS...BASTROP...CALDWELL...EXTREME SOUTHERN TRAVIS AND HAYS AT 325 PM CST A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTH OF SAN MARCOS EASTWARD TO NEAR BASTROP ALONG THE COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD THROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG DAMAGING WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR _NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:33 PM CST, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 230 PM CST MON MAR 3 1986 VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED WITHIN THE PAST HOUR FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF AUSTIN TO NEAR BASTROP. MOVEMENT IS TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THAT PAST THROUGH THE AUSTIN AREA SHORTLY BEFORE 2 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE OVER HAYS..SOUTHERN TRA5VIS..CALDWELL AND BASTROP COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays, Travis | 64 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.