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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 23, 1995Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Val Verde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1241 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-385 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 232359 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC465-240100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
658 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...VAL VERDE COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN VAL VERDE COUNTY FROM 10 MILES WEST OF JUNO TO JUST
NORTH OF LANGTRY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH.  THESE WINDS
BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...
SOMET0IMES BUILDINGS.  VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT
OUTSIDE.

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 23, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ171>172-232130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
310 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE AND EDWARD COUNTIES UNTIL 9PM...

AT 250 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED 40 TO 50 MILES WEST OF
THE RIO GRANDE IN NORTHEAST MEXICO AND BY 310PM HAD MOVED TO WITHIN 30
30 MILES OF LAKE AMISTAD.  THESE STORMS LIKELY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...
GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND
SHOULD BE APROACHING THE RIO GRANDE RIVER BY 400 PM.  PERSONS ON
AND NEAR LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS THE STORMS
MOVE IN.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR VAL VERDE AND EDWARDS
COUNTY.  ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.  RESIDIENTS OF THESE
COUNTIES NEED TO BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, May 23, 4:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ171>172-232330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
420 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE AND EDWARD COUNTIES UNTIL
   9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

AT 415 PM CDT PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN
NORTHERN MEXICO...15 TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE AMISTAD.  THESE
STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND
WILL BE CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE RIVER INTO VAL VERDE COUNTY BETWEEN
5 AND 6 PM.  PERSONS AND BOATERS IN THE LAKE AMISTAD AREA SHOULD TAKE
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS THE STORMS APPROACH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UzNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR VAL VERDE AND EDWARDS
COUNTY.  ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.  RESIDIENTS OF THESE
COUNTIES NEED TO BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde59 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.