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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 18, 1995Wilson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 12:25 AM CDT for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 17, 6:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before

TXZ171>173-192-180100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
625 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 620 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF LLANO TO JUST NORTH OF
BURNET AND THEN NORTHEASTWARD TO NEAR WACO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM
WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF BURNET AND WAS MOVING TOWARD OAKALLA.
PEA SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED ACROSS
LAKE BUCHANAN.  ALL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 17, 7:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

TXZ171>173-190>194-180300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
745 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
TEXAS...

AT 740 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM BURNET TO GEORGETOWN AND THEN EXTENDING NORTHEAST
TO THE WACO AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH
OF GEORGETOWN.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 17, 8:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

TXZ171>173-190>194-180400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
845 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
TEXAS INCLUDING TRAVIS...BASTROP...LEE...BLANCO AND WILLIAMSON
COUNTIES...

AT 840 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM BURNET TO JUST WEST OF AUSTIN TO GEORGETOWN.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF AUSTIN.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE
INTO THE AUSTIN METROPOLITAN AREA IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 17, 10:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

TXZ171>173-190>194-180500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1010 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 1005 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JOHNSON CITY TO AUSTIN TO GEORGETOWN. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF
HEAVY nDOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 17, 10:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

TXZ203>205-219-220-180500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1043 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

AT 1040 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM HONDO TO PEARSALL. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS
LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF HONDO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO BEXAR COUNTY WITHIN
THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND PO~SSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	60 min
May 17, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Medina	64 min
May 18, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Medina	56 min
May 18, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes	65 min
May 18, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio	47 min
May 18, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	54 min
May 18, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes, Wilson	66 min
May 18, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	McMullen	40 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.