Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1995, 10:41 PM CDT for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1995, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1995, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Karnes County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 080343 SVRSAT TXC255-080415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1041 PM CDT THU SEP 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KARNES COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KARNES COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHWARD AT 20 MILES PER HOUR ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN KARNES COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DAMAGING WIND CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS FOR THE NEXT HALF HOUR. 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.
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
Local storm report, Sep 7, 10:05 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1003 PM CDT THU SEP 07 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
642 PM COUNTY RD 320 AND 98 TX GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
09/07/95 WILLIAMSON REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPT.
657 PM JARRELL TX GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
09/07/95 WILLIAMSON REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPT.
727 PM HUTTO TX WIDESPREAD ROOF DAMAGE
09/07/95 WILLIAMSON TO THE HIGH SCHOOL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPT.
730 PM PFLUGERVILLE TX POSSIBLE TORNADO
09/07/95 TRAVIS REPORTED BY MEDIA
750 PM AUSTIN TX 60 MPH WIND GUSTS
09/07/95 TRAVIS (REPORTED BY CITIZEN)
845 PM TAMARAC SHORES N OF TX TRAILER BLOWN OVER
09/07/95 CANYON LAKE REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPT.
COMAL
848 PM NEAR NEW BRAUNFELS
09/07/95 GUADALUPE/COMAL LINE TX 60 MPH WINDS
RECORDED AT NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE
925 PM GONZALES TX 60 MPH WINDS
09/07/95 GONZALES REPORTED BY CITIZEN
930 PM AUSTIN TX 75,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT
09/07/95 TRAVIS POWER ESTIMATED 48 HOURS
TO RESTORE
REPORTED BY NEWS MEDIA
945 PM AUSTIN TX MANY STRUCTURAL FIRES DUE
09/07/95 TRAVIS TO LIGHTNING AND STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE FROM WIND.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 115 min |
| Sep 7, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad | 58 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.