Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 59 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.