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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 3, 1995Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 10:33 PM CDT for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 1995, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hays County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 10.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 040337 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC209-040430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1033 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...HAYS COUNTY
 
AT 1032 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS JUST ENTERING WESTERN HAYS COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE EAST
AT 30 MPH.  THE CITY OF WIMBERLY SHOULD EXPECT THIS THUNDERSTORM WITHIN
THE NEXT 20 MINUTES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH.  THESE WINDS
BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...
SOMETIMES BUILDINGS.  VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT
OUTSIDE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	61 min
Jul 3, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	60 min
Jul 3, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	56 min
Jul 3, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	60 min
Jul 3, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Uvalde	64 min
Jul 3, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera	55 min
Jul 3, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kendall	59 min
Jul 3, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde, Zavala	59 min
Jul 3, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	62 min
Jul 3, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal	60 min
Jul 3, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	56 min
Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco	65 min
Jul 3, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe, Wilson	62 min
Jul 3, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	62 min
Jul 3, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes	62 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.