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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 301, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 29, 2006Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 29, 2006, 1:32 PM CST for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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
Dec 29, 2006, 1:32 PM CST (19:32 UTC)
Expired
Dec 29, 2006, 1:53 PM CST
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 29, 12:42 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-12-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-12-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.