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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 24, 1996Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 1996, 5:11 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
Aug 24, 1996, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 836 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
836 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 242214
TORSAT
TXC149-242245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
511 PM CDT SAT AUG 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 510 PM THE FAYETTE COUNTY SHEFIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON
I 10 TO THE WEST OF SCHLUNENBURG MOVING TO THE WEST. RESIDENTS OF
FLATONIA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
IF YOU SEE SEVER$E WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO
THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 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
Aug 24, 10:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis2 hr
Aug 24, 12:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis67 min
Aug 24, 1:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis2 hr
Aug 24, 5:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXZavala2 hr

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.