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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 30, 1995Lee County, Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1995, 9:01 PM CDT for Lee County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1995, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lee County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2153 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 KSAT 310203 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC287-491-310245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
901 PM CDT WED AUG 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...WESTERN LEE COUNTY...EASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICNATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF LEXINGTON MOVING
NORTHWEST ALONG FARM ROAD 112 TOWARD TAYLOR.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY
OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 3:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal66 min
Aug 31, 3:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.