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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 20, 1996Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 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, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Burnet County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 141 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 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
141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 9:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
Sep 19, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
Sep 19, 10:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet2 hr
Sep 19, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet2 hr
Sep 19, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano64 min
Sep 19, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis65 min
Sep 19, 11:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
Sep 19, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
Sep 20, 12:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis2 hr
Sep 20, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis2 hr
Sep 20, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano58 min
Sep 20, 1:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop2 hr
Sep 20, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop2 hr
Sep 20, 1:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet, Llano2 hr
Sep 20, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano2 hr
Sep 20, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell62 min
Sep 20, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXFayette, Gonzales2 hr
Sep 20, 2:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette, Gonzales2 hr
Sep 20, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBurnet67 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.