Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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 00:00Z, 2.0 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
- 3305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 240201 SVRSAT TXC465-240300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 900 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...VAL VERDE COUNTY AT 855 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL VAL VERDE COUNTY..BETWEEN COMSTOCK AND LOMA ALTA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIG>HTNING 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 23, 3:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 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, 4 hours 37 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.
Special weather statement, May 23, 8:10 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ183-184-202-217-240200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 802 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE EDWARDS PLATEAU UNTIL 2 AM... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. AT 800 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY IN THE LAST 15 MINUTES. ADDITIONAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE RIVER TOWARD LANGTRY AND DEL RIO AT SPEEDS OF 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE CITIES OF LANGTRY AND DEL RIO IN THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 2 AM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCT HAIL...HIGH WINDS...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 64 min |
| May 23, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| May 23, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 69 min |
| May 23, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 68 min |
| May 23, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 47 min |
| May 23, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 64 min |
| May 23, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 61 min |
| May 24, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.