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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 22, 1995Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1995, 3:35 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1995, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kinney County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 41 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 488 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 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
488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 222036 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC271-222130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
335 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF BRACKETVILLE MOVING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST
NEAR 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS BRACKETVILLE TOWARD SPOFFORD IN
THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO OVER 50
MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
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
Aug 22, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick49 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.