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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 3, 1986Bastrop County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Victoria Regiona, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 168 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Victoria Regiona, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 3:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell, Hays, Travis64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.