Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 4:31 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1995, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 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, 9.5 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
- 2826 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 282134 SVRSAT TXC465-282230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 431 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...VAL VERDE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE AMISTAD. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR LAKE AMISTAD WITHIN THE NEST 20 TO 30 MINUTES. HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBLITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMbAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING 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 28, 11:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ168>175-183>194-202>209-217>225-233-234-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1100 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM VICTORIA TO DEL RIO. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE HILL COUNTRY AND THE CITIES OF AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO. LATER THIS AFTERNOON...VERY HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL COLLIDE WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD FROM NORTHWEST TEXAS. THE COLD FRONT ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEATING WILL COMBINE TO TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING BY TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BE SLOW MOVING WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF REDEVELOPMENT ALONG THE WEAK COLD FRONT. THIS REDEVELOPMENT NEAR THE COLD FRONT WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. CAMPERS AND OTHERS ENGAGED IN WEATHER SENSITIVE ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE BEST ROUTE FOR A QUICK AND SAFE EVACUATION. OUTLOOK FOR MEMORIAL DAY IN THE HILL COUNTRY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS CLOSELY MONITORING A POSSIBLE SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN EVENT OVER PARTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BEGINNING AS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING TONIGHT INTO MEMORIAL DAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED AS EXARLY AS THIS AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. STAYED TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT.
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:03 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
TXZ183-202-282200- SPECCIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 353 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IN MEXICO ARE HEADED NORTH AND NORTHEAST TOWARD LAKE AMISTAD...THE CITY OF DEL RIO AND THE EXTREME WESTERN EDGE OF KINNEY COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THESE AREAS BY 445 PM. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE WINDS GUSTS OVER 40 MPH...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. BOATERS SHOULD GET OFF OF LAKE AMISTAD AND SEEK SHELTER NOW. ALL PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD PREPARE TO MOVE TO SAFETY AS THE THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
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.