Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2005, 9:40 PM CST for Bastrop County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Mar 25, 2005, 9:40 PM CST (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2005, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Lee County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KEWX 260344
SVREWX
TXC021-287-260445-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0049.050326T0340Z-050326T0445Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
940 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
LEE
BASTROP
* UNTIL 1045 PM CST
* AT 932 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE TO GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL MOVE EAST AT 35 MPH OVER PARTS OF BASTROP AND LEE COUNTIES.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FEDOR...LEXINGTON AND
TANGLEWOOD.
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A STURDY BUILDING.
LAT...LON 3011 9755 2988 9734 3017 9706 3028 9677
3051 9699 3039 9726
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KEWX 260419
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1017 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005
TXC021-287-260445-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050326T0445Z/
LEE TX-BASTROP TX-
1017 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CST FOR BASTROP
COUNTY...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM CST FOR
BASTROP AND LEE COUNTIES...
AT 1012 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMP SWIFT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST
OF ELGIN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
A TORNADO WARNING FOR LEE COUNTY MAY BE NEEDED AS THIS STORM
CONTINUES TO SHOW SIGNS OF ROTATION.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3011 9755 2988 9734 3017 9706 3028 9677
3051 9699 3039 9726
$$000
WWUS54 KEWX 260432
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1031 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005
TXC021-287-260445-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050326T0445Z/
LEE TX-BASTROP TX-
1031 PM CST FRI MAR 25 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM CST FOR
BASTROP AND LEE COUNTIES...
AT 1028 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PAIGE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF
GIDDINGS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FEDOR...LEXINGTON AND
TANGLEWOOD. THIS STORM IS BEGINNING TO WEAKEN AND MAY FALL BELOW
SEVERE LEVELS BY 1045 PM.
LAT...LON 3011 9755 2988 9734 3017 9706 3028 9677
3051 9699 3039 9726
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 64 min |
| Mar 25, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 58 min |
| Mar 25, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 64 min |
| Mar 25, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Hays, Travis | 65 min |
| Mar 25, 9:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis | 34 min |
| Mar 25, 9:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 6:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 6:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.