Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1995, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 3033 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 111919 SVRSAT TXC149-112015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 215 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...FAYETTE COUNTY AT 215 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF LAGRANGE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH TOWARD OLDENBURG AND WARRENTON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
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, May 11, 11:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ205>208-223-111800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1105 AM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 AT 11 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM THE SAN ANTONIO AREA TO NEW BRAUNFELS TO SEGUIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROU$S LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, May 11, 1:46 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
146 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1112 AM NEW BRAUNFELS TX MARBLE SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 COMAL
1115 AM GRUENE TX DIME SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 COMAL
1130 AM WFO AUS/SAT TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/11/95 GUADALUPE
1130 AM 4 SE NEW BRAUNFELS TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/11/95 GUADALUPE
1205 PM LULING TX QUARTER SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 CALDWELL
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1220 PM KINGSLAND TX GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 LLANO
1222 PM MULDOON TX MARBLE SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 FAYETTE
1227 PM ROUND ROCK TX PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 WILLIAMSON
1254 PM BURNET TX PEA SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 BURNET
125 PM BAVSTROP TX GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
05/11/95 BASTROP
135 PM BASTROP TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/11/95 BASTROPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| May 10, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 37 min |
| May 10, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| May 10, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 54 min |
| May 11, 11:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 67 min |
| May 11, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 67 min |
| May 11, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 55 min |
| May 11, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano, Williamson | 70 min |
| May 11, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales | 55 min |
| May 11, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 63 min |
| May 11, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 63 min |
| May 11, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 67 min |
| May 11, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 62 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.