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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 31, 1995Real County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1995, 3:39 AM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1995, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1995, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Real County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 832 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 310840 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC385-310945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
339 AM CDT THU AUG 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...REAL COUNTY
 
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR LEAKY MOVING TOWARD CAMP WOOD...
 
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 30, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLee, Williamson44 min
Aug 31, 3:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde62 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.