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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 14, 1995Bexar County, Guadalupe County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 4:35 PM CDT for Bexar County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bexar County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2576 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 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2576 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.3
Supercell composite
-2.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 142139 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC029-187-142230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
435 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 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 LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BEXAR COUNTY...SOUTHERN GUADALUPE COUNTY...
 
AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF NEW BERLIN MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO ST. HEDWIG IN 15 MINUTES.
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal57 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.