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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 30, 1995Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1995, 8:22 PM CDT for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1995, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1995, 8:50 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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, 1.4 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 1995-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 830 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 310124
TORSAT
TXC491-310230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
822 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
AT 820 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. CITIZEN
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 2 MILES EAST OF GEORGETOWN. ROUND ROCK IS IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
TORNADOES IN TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEM USUALLY DEVELOP QUICKLY...MOVE
RAPIDLY...AND CAN OCCUR REPEATEDLY FROM THE SAME BAND OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA PAND CLOSE TO A
THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER UNTIL IT PASSES.

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.