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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 7, 1995Bastrop County, Caldwell County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1995, 8:12 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 1995, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1966 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
1966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1049 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 080115 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC021-055-080215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
812 PM CDT THU SEP 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BASTROP COUNTY...CALDWELL COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR EXTENDING
FROM WESTERN BASTROP TO NORTHERN CALDWELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS
WAS TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WIND ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
 
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.
 
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
Sep 7, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis63 min
Sep 7, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays62 min
Sep 7, 8:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis115 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.