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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 24, 1995Bastrop County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1995, 2:23 PM CST for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1995, 2:23 PM CST (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1995, 3:00 PM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bastrop County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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 1995-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 423 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 1995-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 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 242026 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC021-242100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO TX
223 PM CST FRI MAR 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BASTROP COUNTY
 
AT 224 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST BASTROP COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SMITHVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
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.

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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.