Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 6:00 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1995, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1995, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVCT 301102 SVRVCT TXC057-301200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 600 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...CALHOUN COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE SOUTH TEXAS COAST AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAVACA BAY AT 555 AM CDT VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA NEAR PLACEDO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN OF 2-3 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED. PERSONS IN PORT LAVACA...SEA DRIFT AND POINT COMFORT SHOULD TAKE SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. MARINERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 61 min |
| May 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 105 min |
| May 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 105 min |
| May 29, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 104 min |
| May 29, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 64 min |
| May 29, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| May 29, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| May 29, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| May 30, 12:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 2 hr |
| May 30, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
| May 30, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 43 min |
| May 30, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 48 min |
| May 30, 6:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 2 hr |
| May 30, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 66 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.