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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 2, 1995Bastrop County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 6:08 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 1995, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bastrop County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2508 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 022309 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC021-030015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
608 PM CDT MON OCT 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BASTROP COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF BASTROP. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH
AT 15 MPH AND WILL ENTER BASTROP WITHIN 15 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 2, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLee70 min
Oct 2, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal, Hays70 min
Oct 2, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell70 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.