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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 1, 1995Travis County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 1:19 AM CST for Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 1, 1995, 1:19 AM CST (07:19 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 1995, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Travis County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 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-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: 251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 010719 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC453-010815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
119 AM CST WED NOV 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...TRAVIS COUNTY
 
AT 114 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF
AUSTIN. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
 
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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 1, 12:54 AM CST, 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1254 AM CST WED NOV 01 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

300 PM     SAN ANTONIO               TX   PEA SIZED HAIL
10/31/95   BEXAR                          BEXAR CO. SHERIFF

415 PM     SAN MARCOS                TX   PEA SIZED HAIL
10/31/95   HAYS                           NWS EMPLOYEE.

535 PM     CEDAR CREEK               TX   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
10/31/95   BASTROP                        TRAINED SPOTTER.

535 PM     SE BASTROP                TX   DAMAGING HAIL
10/31/95   BASTROP                        BASTROP SHERIFF.

540 PM     BOX CANYON/NEAR DEL RIO   TX   1 1/2 INCH HAIL
10/31/95   VAL VERDE                      TRAINED SPOTTER.
600 PM    DEL RIO                          TX   FUNNEL CLOUDS NE
10/31/95  VAL VERDE                             NWS EMPLOYEE.

620 PM    GIDDINGS                         TX   DIME SIZED HAIL
10/31/95  LEE                                   GIDDINGS S.O.

730 PM    DEL RIO                          TX   PEA-MARBLE SIZE HAIL
10/31/95  VAL VERDE                             NWS EMPLOYEE.

1223 AM   NW OF SAN MARCOS                 TX   GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
11/01/95  HAYS                                  SAN MARCOS P.D.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 6:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney	54 min
Oct 31, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real	67 min
Oct 31, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	61 min
Oct 31, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	56 min
Oct 31, 11:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco	65 min
Oct 31, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	69 min
Nov 1, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	58 min
Nov 1, 12:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	118 min
Nov 1, 12:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	48 min
Nov 1, 1:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	66 min
Nov 1, 8:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	60 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.