Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 9:19 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1995, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1847 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 010223 RRA SVRSAT TXC171-010315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 919 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GILLESPIE COUNTY AT 915 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHWEST GILLESPIE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS THAT THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED IN HAS HAD A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. A WIND GUST TO 66 MPH WAS REPORTED IN A STORM LOCATED IN LLANO COUNTY IN THE CITY OF LLANO AROUND 9 PM CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING 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 31, 6:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ168>173-184-185-186>190-192-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 615 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR PARTS OF HILL COUNTRY AND CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 610 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH TO EAST OF SAN ANGELO. THESE STORMS MAY DEVELOP SOUTH AND SOUTHEASTWARD AND AFFECT PARTS OF EDWARDS...REAL...KERR...GILLESPI E...LLANO...BURNET...BLANCO... WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES IN THE EVENING HOURS. HIGH WIND...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
TXZ173-020026- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 626 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995 ...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN... AT 620 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY NORTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. GUSTY WIND...SOME HAIL...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS IN THE NEXT HOUR OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY.
Special weather statement, May 31, 7:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ171-172-184>190-010230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 732 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR LLANO... TRAVIS...LEE...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... AT 735 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LLANO TO NEAR MENARD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE ENTERING LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 7:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
TXZ171-172-184>190-010230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 732 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR LLANO... TRAVIS...LEE...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... AT 735 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LLANO TO NEAR MENARD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE ENTERING LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 57 min |
| May 31, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 61 min |
| May 31, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 57 min |
| May 31, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 55 min |
| May 31, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 58 min |
| May 31, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 68 min |
| May 31, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 68 min |
| May 31, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 65 min |
| May 31, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.