Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2012, 6:08 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Fayette County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 12, 2012, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:39 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Giddings, TX | |
| Jun 12, 6:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Ssw Giddings, TX | SEVERAL LARGE OAK TREES BLOWN DOWN SOME BLOCKING FM448 AT FM2239 |
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, 11.1 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
- 3184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.4
- Supercell composite
- -2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
929
WUUS54 KEWX 122308
SVREWX
TXC021-149-287-130015-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0093.120612T2308Z-120613T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
608 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BASTROP COUNTY...
NORTH CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY...
SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT.
* AT 603 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GIDDINGS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LOEBAU...SERBIN...NORTHRUP...
WINCHESTER...WARDA...LEDBETTER AND CARMINE.
LAT...LON 2999 9701 3027 9712 3039 9696 3022 9673
3019 9673 3016 9678 3015 9672 3017 9668
3016 9666 3014 9664
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 318DEG 13KT 3026 9697
$$1 follow-up statement
183
WWUS54 KEWX 122322
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
622 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012
TXC021-149-287-130015-
/O.CON.KEWX.SV.W.0093.000000T0000Z-120613T0015Z/
FAYETTE TX-LEE TX-BASTROP TX-
622 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL BASTROP...SOUTHERN LEE AND NORTH CENTRAL FAYETTE
COUNTIES...
AT 619 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GIDDINGS...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE
SERBIN...NORTHRUP...WINCHESTER...LEDBETTER...WARDA AND CARMINE.
LAT...LON 2999 9701 3027 9712 3039 9696 3022 9673
3019 9673 3016 9678 3015 9672 3017 9668
3016 9666 3014 9664
TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 322DEG 14KT 3020 9693
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Williamson | 47 min |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.