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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 7, 1995Travis County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT for Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Travis County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 281 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 1995-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2501 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
2501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 080015 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC453-080115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
712 PM CDT THU SEP 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...TRAVIS COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR LAKE TRAVIS IN
WESTERN TRAVIS COUNTY AND MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES PER HOUR.
 
ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...A
TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING
SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays62 min
Sep 7, 8:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis115 min
Sep 7, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Caldwell63 min
Sep 7, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal, Guadalupe67 min
Sep 7, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar60 min
Sep 7, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales56 min
Sep 7, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Medina62 min
Sep 7, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa60 min
Sep 7, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGoliad58 min
Sep 7, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKarnes34 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.