Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

January 24, 2012Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2012, 12:06 PM CST for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2012, 12:06 PM CST (18:06 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 2012, 12:30 PM CST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 24, 12:19 PM CSTHAIL 0.56 Nne Fayetteville, TXMARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR FAYETTEVILLE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 266 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 2012-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 966 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 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
966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

505 
WUUS54 KEWX 241806
SVREWX
TXC149-241830-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0001.120124T1806Z-120124T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1206 PM CST TUE JAN 24 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY...

* UNTIL 1230 PM CST.

* AT 1158 AM CST...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROUND TOP...OR 16 MILES EAST OF LA
  GRANGE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WINEDALE AND CARMINE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 2992 9660 2993 9673 3016 9672 3017 9668
      3015 9665 3011 9663 3008 9663 3006 9661
      2997 9657 2995 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 1806Z 186DEG 27KT 3002 9662

$$
2 follow-up statements
988 
WWUS54 KEWX 241815
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1215 PM CST TUE JAN 24 2012

TXC149-241830-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120124T1830Z/
FAYETTE TX-
1215 PM CST TUE JAN 24 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 PM CST
FOR NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY...

AT 1215 PM CST...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR WINEDALE...OR 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA GRANGE...MOVING
NORTH AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE CARMINE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 2992 9660 2994 9669 3016 9669 3017 9668
      3015 9665 3011 9663 3008 9663 3006 9661
      2997 9657 2995 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 1815Z 186DEG 27KT 3009 9661

$$
439 
WWUS54 KEWX 241832
SVSEWX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1232 PM CST TUE JAN 24 2012

TXC149-241841-
/O.EXP.KEWX.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120124T1830Z/
FAYETTE TX-
1232 PM CST TUE JAN 24 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY
HAS EXPIRED...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF FAYETTE 
COUNTY.

LAT...LON 2992 9660 2994 9669 3016 9669 3017 9668
      3015 9665 3011 9663 3008 9663 3006 9661
      2997 9657 2995 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 1815Z 186DEG 27KT 3009 9661

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 1:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays, Travis26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.