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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 17, 1995Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 1995, 2:15 AM CST for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 1995, 2:15 AM CST (08:15 UTC)
Expired
Dec 17, 1995, 3:00 AM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 282 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 1995-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 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 170817 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC287-170900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
215 AM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...LEE COUNTY
 
AT 215 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST
OF GIDDINGS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MPH.
 
 
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
OUTSID`E.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 3:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt67 min
Dec 17, 3:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCalhoun64 min
Dec 17, 3:37 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe53 min
Dec 17, 3:37 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGoliad53 min
Dec 17, 3:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLavaca56 min
Dec 17, 4:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales44 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.