Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 7:54 PM CDT for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 8, 1996, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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 8, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Taylor, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 090055 SVRSAT TXC491-090130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 754 PM CDT THU AUG 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WILLIAMSON COUNTY AT 754 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TAYLOR MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND. 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.
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, Aug 8, 7:44 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-090115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 721 PM CDT THU AUG 8 1996 AS AUGUST OF 1996 BEGINS...THE HOT WEATHER THAT HAS PREVAILED IN JUNE AND JULY WILL CONTINUE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND...AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE ALOFT TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE AREA CONTINUES TO AFFECT OUR WEATHER REGIME. IN JULY THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 86.7 FOR AUSTIN WAS 2.2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...87.3 FOR SAN ANTONIO WAS 2.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND 89.2 FOR DEL RIO WAS 4.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 3RD WARMEST JULY FOR SAN ANTONIO...4TH WARMEST FOR DEL RIO AND 7TH WARMEST FOR AUSTIN. AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR 100 TO 102 OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND FRIDAY WITH...NEAR 100 TO 103 NEAR DEL RIO TODAY AND NEAR 102 TO 104 AROUND DEL RIO FRIDAY. SINCE JUNE 1ST...THE NUMBER OF 100 DEGREE DAYS HAS BEEN 34 FOR DEL RIO...16 FOR SAN ANTONIO AND 10 FOR AUSTIN. EVEN THOUGH SOME ADJUSTMENT TO THE HOT SUMMER WEATHER HAS OCCURRED/OR MAY NOT HAVE OCCURRED THIS SUMMER...THE CHALLENGES OF LONG EXPOSURE TO OUTDOOR WORK OR ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THE NEXT FEW DAYS...AS AFTERNOON HIGHS CLIMB TO NEAR THE CENTURY MARK. LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING...HATS... WATER AND OCCASIONAL SHADE PLUS BREAKS...WILL BE ONE OF THE BEST OR BETTER TOOLS FOR OUTDOOR WORK OR ACTIVITY.
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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.