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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 11, 2024, 8:09 AM CST for Bastrop County, Fayette County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Feb 11, 2024, 8:09 AM CST (14:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2024, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 1737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Feb 10, 5:35 PM CST, 14 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 5:35 PM CST, 14 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 6:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 49 min |
| Feb 11, 7:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 46 min |
| Feb 11, 8:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 22 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.