Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT for Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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 02:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Travis, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 010201 SVRSAT TXC453-010300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 900 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...TRAVIS COUNTY AT 9 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG WINDS MOVING INTO NORTHERN TRAVIS COUNTY. VERY STRONG WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THE STORM AS IT PUSHES INTO THE AUSTIN AREA DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. 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. 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 ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 65 min |
| Aug 31, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.