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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 13, 1995Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1995, 6:20 PM CST for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 70 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1995, 6:20 PM CST (00:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1995, 7:30 PM CST
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Williamson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 1995-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, Mar 13, 6:00 PM CST, 20 minutes before
TXZ-173-192-193-194-209-132359-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
600 PM CST MON MAR 13 1995

       ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY UNTIL
          7:30 PM CST.

AT 600 PM CST A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHEAST OF
GEORGETOWN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.  THIS STORM IS LIKELY
TO TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS.  PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN
WILLIAMSON COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL
THE STORM PASSES.

BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW SPOTS ON THE ROADS IS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS IN THIS
AREA SHOULD AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS.

MASTISON
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 6:13 PM CST, 7 minutes before
TXZ-173-192-193-194-209-132359-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
600 PM CST MON MAR 13 1995

       ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY UNTIL
          7:30 PM CST.

AT 600 PM CST A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHEAST OF
GEORGETOWN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.  THIS STORM IS LIKELY
TO TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS.  PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN
WILLIAMSON COUNTY SHOULDn BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL
THE STORM PASSES.

BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW SPOTS ON THE ROADS IS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS IN THIS
AREA SHOULD AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS.

MASTISON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 6:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson73 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.