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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 20, 1996Fayette County, Gonzales County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 1996, 2:26 AM CDT for Fayette County, Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 20, 1996, 2:26 AM CDT (07:26 UTC)
Expired: Sep 20, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Sep 19, 9:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

TXZ171>173-190>194-208-200400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
905 PM CDT THU SEP 19 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS...
   INCLUDING THE GEORGETOWN AND AUSTIN METROPOLITAN AREAS...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL TEXAS VALID
UNTIL 1 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING.

THE WATCH IN WITHIN AN AREA ALONG AND 60 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A
LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF AUSTIN TO 55 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF
WACO.  THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF GEORGETOWN AND AUSTIN ARE INCLUDED
IN THE WATCH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR
IN THE AFFECTED AREA.  PERSONS IN LLANO...BURNET...BLANCO...HAYS...
WILLIAMSON...TRAVIS...LEE...BASTROP AND CALDWELL COUNTIES SHOULD
MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS AND FORECASTS AND BE READY
TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING IS ISSUED.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT DEADLY
LIGHTNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES...
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR BULLETINS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION
WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT...SO PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL
RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATIONS.

Local storm report, Sep 19, 11:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
1145 PM CDT THU SEP 18 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1115 PM    KINGSLAND                 TX   TREE LIMBS AND MAIL BOXES
09/19/96   LLANO                          DOWN DUE TO HIGH WINDS.
                                          LLANO SHERIFF

1122 PM    KINGSLAND                 TX   .75 HAIL
09/19/96   LLANO                          AT KNOB HILL IN KINGSLAND
                                          LLANO SHERIFF

Local storm report, Sep 20, 1:50 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 20, 1:55 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 20, 2:00 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 19, 9:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Williamson	2 hr
Sep 19, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	2 hr
Sep 19, 10:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet	2 hr
Sep 19, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	2 hr
Sep 19, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	64 min
Sep 19, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	65 min
Sep 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Williamson	2 hr
Sep 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	2 hr
Sep 20, 12:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr
Sep 20, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr
Sep 20, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	58 min
Sep 20, 1:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	2 hr
Sep 20, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	2 hr
Sep 20, 1:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	2 hr
Sep 20, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	2 hr
Sep 20, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	62 min
Sep 20, 2:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Fayette, Gonzales	2 hr
Sep 20, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	60 min
Sep 20, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Burnet	67 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.