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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 1, 1996Bastrop County, Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Fayette 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
Jun 1, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 252 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1026 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
1026 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 020002
SVRSAT
TXC021-149-020100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
700 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN BASTROP COUNTY...WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 657 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHERN BASTROP COUNTY NEAR ROSANKY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH
NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO FAYETTE COUNTY NEAR CISTERN IN
THE NEXT 30 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.
 
IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO
THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT A,GENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson74 min
Jun 2, 6:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.