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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

January 22, 1995Victoria County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1995, 12:28 PM CST for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 22, 1995, 12:28 PM CST (18:28 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1995, 1:10 PM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 404 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 250 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KVCT 221830 RRA
SVRVCT
TXC469-221915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
1228 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN VICTORIA COUNTY
 
AT 1227 PM CST VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHEASTERN VICTORIA COUNTY...NEAR PLACEDO...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PLACEDO AREA TAKE SHELTER
NOW.
 
 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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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.