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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 5, 2005Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2005, 9:36 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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: Apr 5, 2005, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bexar County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 060236
SVREWX
TXC029-060330-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0068.050406T0236Z-050406T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
936 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 932 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINDCREST...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SELMA...LIVE OAK...UNIVERSAL
  CITY...KIRBY...SCHERTZ AND ST. HEDWIG.

LAT...LON 2968 9843 2954 9854 2934 9824 2946 9815

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 060251
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
951 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

TXC029-060330-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0068.000000T0000Z-050406T0330Z/
BEXAR TX-
951 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR
BEXAR COUNTY...

AT 949 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CONVERSE...OR ABOUT NEAR UNIVERSAL 
CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ST. HEDWIG BY 1005 PM CDT

LAT...LON 2968 9843 2954 9854 2934 9824 2946 9815

$$

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 060306
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1006 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

TXC029-060330-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0068.000000T0000Z-050406T0330Z/
BEXAR TX-
1006 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR
BEXAR COUNTY...

AT 1001 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CONVERSE...OR ABOUT NEAR UNIVERSAL 
CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  7 MILES WEST OF ST. HEDWIG BY 1015 PM CDT

LAT...LON 2968 9843 2954 9854 2934 9824 2946 9815

$$

000 
WWUS54 KEWX 060321
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1020 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

TXC029-060330-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0068.000000T0000Z-050406T0330Z/
BEXAR TX-
1020 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR
BEXAR COUNTY...

AT 1018 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. 
THESE STORM WERE LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. HEDWIG...AND 5 
MILES NORTHWEST OF ELMENDORF...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

LAT...LON 2968 9843 2954 9854 2934 9824 2946 9815

$$

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 Apr 5, 8:39 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 8:39 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
839 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

.UPDATE...
HAVE UPDATED TEXT AND GRIDS FOR SEVERE TSTM WATCH #127 EFFECTIVE UNTIL
4 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING.  LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE TSTMS ALONG THE
DRYLINE PRODUCING LARGE/DAMAGING HAIL AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 722 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005/

UPDATE...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE BACKBUILDING SOUTHWESTWARD INTO BURNET
COUNTY ALONG THE DRY-LINE. LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING ESE AND WILL
IMPACT BURNET...WILLIAMSON...TRAVIS...LEE...AND BASTROP COUNTIES
OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL
BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. GRIDS AND TEXT PRODUCTS UPDATED.

PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 300 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005/

DISCUSSION...
SATELLITE LOOPS SHOW UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE
TEXAS PANHANDLE MOVING EAST. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS IN THE
VICINITY OF THE LOW AND IS DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD INTO NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS DRYLINE OVER CENTRAL TEXAS HAS MOVED
EAST INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. DEW-POINT
OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES HAVE FALLEN INTO THE 40S AND WINDS HAVE
SHIFTED AROUND TO THE WEST. THIS DRY CONDITION HAS RESULTED IN THE
CONTINUATION OF THE RED FLAG WARNING THIS LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE
EARLY EVENING HOURS FOR THE COUNTIES ALONG THE RIO GRANDE RIVER AND
WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE HILL COUNTRY.

LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE CONTINUES WITH LAST NIGHTS SOLUTION OF MOVING
THE CLOSED LOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH A
TRAILING FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTHWEST AND THIS BOUNDARY DRIVING
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE IS PROGGED TO MOVE
SOUTHEAST FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND
THIS FEATURE WILL GIVE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS COOL DRY WEATHER THROUGH
THE REMAINING OF THE WORKWEEK.

TOWARDS THIS WEEKEND...ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE ONSHORE IN THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT ACROSS TEXAS LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

AIRMASS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS REMAINS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE
GULF FOR THIS LATE AFTERNOON....WITH A BUILDING RIDGE TO THE
NORTHWEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT...TEMPERATURES
WILL MODERATE WITH MORNING LOWS FALLING INTO THE 50S AND AFTERNOON
HIGHS CONTINUING IN THE 70S INTO THE LOWER 80S.

EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

13/04

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 5, 7:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
734 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-061100-
ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DEWITT-
DIMMIT-EDWARDS-FAYETTE-FRIO-GILLESPIE-GONZALES-GUADALUPE-HAYS-KARNES-
KENDALL-KERR-KINNEY-LAVACA-LEE-LLANO-MAVERICK-MEDINA-REAL-TRAVIS-
UVALDE-VAL VERDE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-ZAVALA-
734 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
A COLD FRONT AND DRYLINE WILL GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. SOME OF
THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAKE
BUCHANAN TO AUSTIN TO BASTROP TO GIDDINGS. LARGE HAIL IS THE PRIMARY
THREAT. ELSEWHERE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE LATE THIS WEEKEND
INTO MONDAY AS A POTENT STORM SYSTEM TAKES SHAPE OVER NEW MEXICO. NO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 5, 7:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
743 PM CDT TUE APR 05 2005

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

0734 PM     HAIL             3 NW BRIGGS             30.90N 97.95W
04/05/2005  0.88 INCH        BURNET             TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

0736 PM     HAIL             6 W BERTRAM             30.74N 98.16W
04/05/2005  0.88 INCH        BURNET             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0742 PM     HAIL             3 N BERTRAM             30.79N 98.06W
04/05/2005  1.00 INCH        BURNET             TX   AIRPLANE PILOT

&&

JB

Local storm report, Apr 5, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
829 PM CDT TUE APR 05 2005

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

0746 PM     HAIL             12 NE BERTRAM           30.87N 97.91W
04/05/2005  1.75 INCH        BURNET             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            GOLFBALL HAIL AT MAHOMET

0818 PM     HAIL             2 N JARRELL             30.85N 97.60W
04/05/2005  2.75 INCH        WILLIAMSON         TX   UNKNOWN

            REPORTED THROUGH NWS FORT WORTH

0715 PM     HAIL             GEORGETOWN              30.65N 97.69W
04/05/2005  0.75 INCH        WILLIAMSON         TX   PUBLIC

0736 PM     HAIL             1 WNW BRIGGS            30.87N 97.93W
04/05/2005  1.75 INCH        BURNET             TX   PUBLIC

&&

JB

Local storm report, Apr 5, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
829 PM CDT TUE APR 05 2005

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

0746 PM     HAIL             12 NE BERTRAM           30.87N 97.91W
04/05/2005  1.75 INCH        BURNET             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            GOLFBALL HAIL AT MAHOMET

0818 PM     HAIL             2 N JARRELL             30.85N 97.60W
04/05/2005  2.75 INCH        WILLIAMSON         TX   UNKNOWN

            REPORTED THROUGH NWS FORT WORTH

0815 PM     HAIL             GEORGETOWN              30.65N 97.69W
04/05/2005  0.75 INCH        WILLIAMSON         TX   PUBLIC

0736 PM     HAIL             1 WNW BRIGGS            30.87N 97.93W
04/05/2005  1.75 INCH        BURNET             TX   PUBLIC

&&

JB

Special weather statement, Apr 5, 8:50 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
850 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

TXZ189-190-060220-
BLANCO-KENDALL-
850 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR BLANCO AND KENDALL
   COUNTIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH FOR BLANCO AND KENDALL COUNTIES. THE LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTIES AND ADDITIONAL SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.

Local storm report, Apr 5, 9:22 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
922 PM CDT TUE APR 05 2005

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

0845 PM     HAIL             AUSTIN                  30.31N 97.75W
04/05/2005  1.00 INCH        TRAVIS             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SOUTH AUSTIN

0855 PM     HAIL             8 SSE AUSTIN            30.20N 97.70W
04/05/2005  1.00 INCH        TRAVIS             TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

JB

Special weather statement, Apr 5, 9:36 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
936 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

TXZ173-192-060305-
TRAVIS-WILLIAMSON-
936 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR TRAVIS AND WILLIAMSON
   COUNTIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH FOR TRAVIS AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES. THE LINE OF STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTIES AND ADDITIONAL
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	41 min
Apr 5, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	68 min
Apr 5, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	64 min
Apr 5, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco	63 min
Apr 5, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	16 min
Apr 5, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	61 min
Apr 5, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	53 min
Apr 5, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	49 min
Apr 5, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	56 min
Apr 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	67 min
Apr 5, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	66 min
Apr 5, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	67 min
Apr 5, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	61 min
Apr 5, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	58 min
Apr 5, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt	66 min
Apr 5, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.