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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 29, 2005Gonzales County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2005, 8:03 PM CDT for Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2005, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gonzales County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 29, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -303 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 
WUUS54 KEWX 300103
SVREWX
TXC177-300145-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0138.050530T0103Z-050530T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
803 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  GONZALES

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 802 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SMILEY...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PALMETO...GONZALES AND
  WAELDER.

LAT...LON 2937 9781 2917 9761 2941 9728 2963 9720
      2974 9733 2961 9764

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 300118
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
814 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

TXC177-300145-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0138.000000T0000Z-050530T0145Z/
GONZALES TX-
814 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR
GONZALES COUNTY...

AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SMILEY...OR ABOUT 11
MILES SOUTH OF GONZALES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES UP TO ONE INCH
PER HOUR. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PALMETO AND WAELDER.  


LAT...LON 2937 9781 2917 9761 2941 9728 2963 9720
      2974 9733 2961 9764

$$

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.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 5:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 5:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
532 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

.UPDATE...AMENDED GRIDS AND HEADLINES TO ACCOUNT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH NUMBER 351.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 335 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005/

DISCUSSION...
BUSY NIGHT AHEAD AS THE UPR TROF OVR WEST CENTRAL TX SINKS SLOWLY SEWD
OVERNIGHT WHILE A S/W OVR NE MEX PUSHES EASTWARD INTO THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS
UNDERNEATH THE TROF.  AMS OVR S TX HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTN WITH
70+ DEW POINTS INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA...OR SOUTH A SFC TROF WHICH
LIES E-W ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY.  ALSO SEEING A PUNCH OF AIR AT THE MID-LEVELS
IN THE WESTERN CWA THIS AFTN WHICH IN ADDITION TO STRONG HEATING WILL AID IN
INCREASING THE LAPSE RATES THIS EVENING.  IN ADDITION TO THE SVR WX THREAT THERE
IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AS THE SFC TROF IN THE HILL COUNTRY SINKS SLOWLY
SWD THIS EVENING AND PROVIDES A FOCUS FOR TRAINING CELLS AHEAD OF THE S/W LIFTING
OUT OF MEXICO.  FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN
CWA THRU 7 AM.  APPEARS LESSENING CHANCES FOR CONVECTION MON-TUE...ESPECIALLY
WEST AS THE UPR TROF MOVES OFF TO OUR EAST AND A NWLY FLO PREVAILS...WITH NWLY
FLOW MCSS SKIRT OUR EASTERN COUNTIES OR STORMS DRIFT INTO THE FAR WESTERN CWA
OFF THE MEXICAN MOUNTAINS.  NO BIG CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS EXTENDED WITH LOW OR NO
POPS AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO TX AHEAD OF AN UPR LOW THAT WILL TRACK ENEWD
ACROSS NRN MEXICO AND INTO WEST TX LATE THIS WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND.

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM SUNDAY UNTIL 7 AM CDT
      MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ATASCOSA...BASTROP...
      BEXAR...CALDWELL...COMAL...DE WITT...FAYETTE...FRIO...
      GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES...LAVACA...LEE...
      MEDINA...TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...AND WILSON.

&&

02/18

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 7:18 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
718 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 PM     HAIL             INGRAM                  30.08N 99.24W
05/29/2005  0.88 INCH        KERR               TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

JPB

Local storm report, May 29, 7:47 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
747 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0545 PM     HAIL             8 N HALLETTSVILLE       29.56N 96.94W
05/29/2005  0.75 INCH        LAVACA             TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

JPB

Local storm report, May 29, 8:00 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
800 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0530 PM     TSTM WND DMG     YORKTOWN                28.98N 97.50W
05/29/2005                   DEWITT             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE BLOWN DOWN AND ACROSS ROAD IN YORKTOWN

0752 PM     HAIL             RUNGE                   28.89N 97.71W
05/29/2005  0.75 INCH        KARNES             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0754 PM     HAIL             KARNES CITY             28.89N 97.90W
05/29/2005  0.75 INCH        KARNES             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

JPB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes	47 min
May 29, 8:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca	4 hr
May 29, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	31 min
May 29, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	38 min
May 29, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	54 min
May 29, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	62 min
May 29, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	32 min
May 29, 10:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Hays, Travis	3 hr
May 29, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	18 min
May 29, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	66 min
May 29, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	28 min
May 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Hays	3 hr

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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.