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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 13, 1991Bastrop County, Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1991, 7:17 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1991, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1991, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Lee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 372 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.6

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The text

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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, Apr 13, 2:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ034>037-132030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
210 PM CDT SAT APR 13 1991

...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING WEST OF LAKE TRAVIS...

AT 2 PM CDT AUSTIN RADAR INDICATED A THUNDEcRSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY
JUST TO THE WEST OF LAKE TRAVIS.

THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY BECOME SEVERE WITHIN THE HOUR.

IF YOU ON LAKE TRAVIS PLEASE MOVE TO SHORE RIGHT AWAY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette65 min
Apr 13, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Fayette69 min
Apr 13, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette64 min
Apr 14, 2:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr61 min
Apr 14, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala64 min
Apr 14, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie58 min
Apr 14, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Kendall61 min
Apr 14, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays62 min
Apr 14, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis64 min
Apr 14, 4:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays47 min
Apr 14, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMilam62 min
Apr 14, 5:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Caldwell52 min
Apr 14, 6:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette45 min
Apr 14, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLavaca63 min
Apr 14, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria57 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.