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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

February 27, 1999Lavaca County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 5:47 PM CST for Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
Feb 27, 1999, 5:47 PM CST (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1999, 6:35 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lavaca County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 1999-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1079 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 12:00Z on 1999-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1079 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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, Feb 27, 3:41 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
341 PM CST SAT FEB 27 1999

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

0310 PM    SMITHVILLE                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/27/99   BASTROP                        GOLFBALL HAIL BY PUBLIC
                                          HWY71 IN SMITHVILLE

0320 PM    BASTROP                   TX   .88 INCH HAIL
02/27/99   BASTROP                        PUBLIC 5ESE BASTROP REPORT
                                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL
Local storm report, Feb 27, 3:41 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
341 PM CST SAT FEB 27 1999

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

0310 PM    SMITHVILLE                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/27/99   BASTROP                        GOLFBALL HAIL BY PUBLIC
                                          HWY71 IN SMITHVILLE

0320 PM    BASTROP                   TX   .88 INCH HAIL
02/27/99   BASTROP                        PUBLIC 5ESE BASTROP REPORT
                                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop57 min
Feb 27, 3:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Fayette30 min
Feb 27, 4:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette32 min
Feb 27, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales, Lavaca51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.