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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 27, 1999Gillespie County, Llano County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1999, 3:00 AM CDT for Gillespie County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 75 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
May 27, 1999, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1999, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Gillespie County, TX, Llano County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2444 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 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
2444 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
5.2

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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, May 26, 10:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1003 PM CDT WED MAY 26 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 PM                              TX
05/26/99   BEXAR                          *** 1 DEAD, 1 INJ ***
                                          LIGHTNING STRUCK A CAR AT
                                          PLEASONTON ROAD AND LOOP
                                          1604 IN SOUTH BEXAR
                                          COUNTY, ONE PERSON DEAD
                                          AND ONE INJURED, EXACT
                                          CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN.

0750 PM                              TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/99   KERR                           BASEBALL SIZE HAIL I-10
                                          WEST OF KERRVILLE.
                                          REPORTED BY DPS

0802 PM                              TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/99   GILLESPIE                      HARPER 9SW BASEBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED BY RAINFALL
                                          OBSERVER

0920 PM                              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/99   BANDERA                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NORTH
                                          OF BANDERA

0924 PM                              TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/99   LEE                            TREES DOWN ON FM 112 5
                                          MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON,
                                          MARBLE SIZED HAIL IN
                                          NORTHRUP

0946 PM                              TX   59 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/99   TRAVIS                         59 MPH WIND REPORTED AT
                                          THE TRAVIS COUNTY SCHOOL
                                          FOR THE DEAF,MEDIA REPORT
                                          LARGE TREE BLOWN OVER NEAR
                                          AIRPORT, TREE DAMAGED
                                          CAR/BOAT REPORTED BY HAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr59 min
May 26, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLee47 min
May 26, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr34 min
May 26, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall67 min
May 26, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Kerr45 min
May 26, 8:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGonzales3 hr
May 26, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera34 min
May 26, 10:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Guadalupe3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.