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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2016, 2:43 AM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- May 2, 2016, 2:43 AM CDT (07:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2016, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Bastrop County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:57 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Ssw Smithville, TX |
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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1865 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.4
- Supercell composite
- -2.1
The text
As transmitted.
317
WUUS54 KEWX 020743
SVREWX
TXC021-020830-
/O.NEW.KEWX.SV.W.0113.160502T0743Z-160502T0830Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
243 AM CDT MON MAY 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BASTROP COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 330 AM CDT
* AT 243 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
SMITHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SMITHVILLE...KOVAR...TOGO AND ALUM CREEK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 2991 9718 2987 9724 3007 9727 3016 9706
3003 9705
TIME...MOT...LOC 0743Z 258DEG 8KT 3000 9718
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
MSLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 11:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays | 52 min |
| May 2, 12:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 31 min |
| May 2, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop | 51 min |
| May 2, 12:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 43 min |
| May 2, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 42 min |
| May 2, 1:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop | 63 min |
| May 2, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 49 min |
| May 2, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 48 min |
| May 2, 1:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Travis | 40 min |
| May 2, 2:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 48 min |
| May 2, 2:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop | 41 min |
| May 2, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 49 min |
| May 2, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 45 min |
| May 2, 11:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Llano | 51 min |
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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.