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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 20, 1996Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports 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: Sep 20, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 20, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hays County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 20, 10:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wimberley, TX
Sep 20, 10:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Wimberley, 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 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

Local storm report, Sep 20, 8:46 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 20, 8:47 PM CDT, 29 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 20, 7:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
Sep 20, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
Sep 20, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	64 min
Sep 20, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Burnet, Travis	57 min
Sep 20, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Travis	64 min
Sep 20, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	117 min
Sep 20, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	65 min
Sep 20, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	59 min
Sep 20, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	55 min
Sep 21, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	52 min
Sep 21, 12:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	51 min
Sep 21, 12:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt	65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.