A rare 'wake low' caused 50-70 MPH gusts Tue. night in Central TX, leaving 20K without power & damaging trees & homes.
CBS Austin Meteorologists warned you of the potential for severe storms and damaging wind gusts in the late Tuesday evening hours. That threat came to fruition, but not in the way that was expected. Storms themselves, as they moved eastward through the southern Hill Country and into the I-35 corridor late Tuesday night, did not produce any confirmed severe weather reports. Lightning, thunder, some gusty winds, sure...
This all boils down to a massive pressure imbalance over a very small area, an imbalance that is corrected by wind moving from high pressure to low pressure. The stronger that difference in pressure is, the stronger the resulting winds will be. In Tuesday night's case, it was a significant imbalance that led to widespread 50 - 70 MPH wind gusts in portions of Travis, Williamson, and Bastrop counties.
The highest confirmed wind gust reports occurred in the city of Austin. Camp Mabry on the west side of downtown recorded a 58 MPH wind gust. The airport also saw a wind gust of 57 MPH. Radar-estimated winds were stronger than that in Williamson county, likely in excess of 65 MPH. That's firmly in the territory of what we consider to be severe, and the National Weather Service subsequently issued high wind warnings for potential wind damage.
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