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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 31, 1995Llano County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 8:33 PM CDT for Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Llano County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 255 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1847 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 31, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ168>173-184-185-186>190-192-010100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
615 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR PARTS
   OF HILL COUNTRY AND CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 610 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS NORTH TO EAST OF SAN ANGELO.

THESE STORMS MAY DEVELOP SOUTH AND SOUTHEASTWARD AND AFFECT PARTS
OF EDWARDS...REAL...KERR...GILLESPIE...LLANO...BURNET...BLANCO...
WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES IN THE EVENING HOURS.

HIGH WIND...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
TXZ173-020026-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
626 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN...

AT 620 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY NORTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

GUSTY WIND...SOME HAIL...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND OCCASIONAL
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS IN THE NEXT HOUR
OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY.
Special weather statement, May 31, 7:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
TXZ171-172-184>190-010230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
732 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR LLANO...
TRAVIS...LEE...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES...

AT 735 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LLANO TO NEAR
MENARD.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR AND SHOULD BE ENTERING LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES WITHIN
THE HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE
SOUTHEAST. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 7:43 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ171-172-184>190-010230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
732 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR LLANO...
TRAVIS...LEE...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES...

AT 735 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LLANO TO NEAR
MENARD.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR AND SHOULD BE ENTERING LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES WITHIN
THE HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE
SOUTHEAST. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie56 min
May 31, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Lee61 min
May 31, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco57 min
May 31, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal, Hays55 min
May 31, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis58 min
May 31, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell, Guadalupe68 min
May 31, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar68 min
May 31, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette, Gonzales65 min
May 31, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLee65 min
Jun 1, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLavaca60 min
Jun 1, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales, Karnes, Wilson63 min
Jun 1, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.