Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1987, 5:48 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1987, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Bexar, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSAT 072248
SVRSAT
TXC029-072330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
548 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...BEXAR
THE WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR BEXAR COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED
UNTIL 630 PM FOR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL BEXAR COUNTY. IT
IS PRESENTLY LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND IS
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM IS
STILL MOVING OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF SAN
ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY. IT HAS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 68 MILES AN HOUR AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT AT SAN ANTONIO.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...HAIL
3/4 INCH OR MORE IN DIAMETER...FREQUENT LIG9HTNING AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN.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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:53 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 453 PM CDT MON SEP 7 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE SAN ANTONIO METROPLEX... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE HILL COUNTRY HAS CONTINUED A SOUTHEASTWARD TRACK TOWARD THE SAN ANTONIO METROPLEX. THE ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR NEW BRAUNFELS WESTWARD ACROSS BOERNE AND BANDERA TO NEAR LEAKEY. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE HILL COUNTRY BETWEEN LLANO...JUNCTION AND SONORA. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF THE PRESENT MOVEMENT CONTINUES...THE STORMS SHOULD ENTER THE SAN ANTONIO METROPLEX BETWEEN 530 PM AND 600 PM THIS EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND WINDS GUSTING TO 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED IN THE THUNDERSTORMS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ALSO LIKELY IN THE ACTIVITY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.