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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, 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, 10:00 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, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1995, 11:00 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, 3.0 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3305 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
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

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The text

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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, 4:23 PM CDT, 5 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, 1 hour 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde60 min
May 23, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde64 min
May 23, 10:06 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde69 min
May 23, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney68 min
May 23, 11:13 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXEdwards47 min
May 23, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal, Uvalde64 min
May 23, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick61 min
May 24, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXZavala63 min

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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.