Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 11:26 PM CDT for Real County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1995, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 240427 SVRSAT TXC385-463-240530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1126 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...REAL COUNTY...UVALDE COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LEAKEY TO JUNCTION. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. 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.
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, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 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, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| 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, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 61 min |
| May 24, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 63 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.