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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 7, 1995Karnes County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1966 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis63 min
Sep 7, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays62 min
Sep 7, 8:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis115 min
Sep 7, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Caldwell63 min
Sep 7, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal, Guadalupe67 min
Sep 7, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar60 min
Sep 7, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales56 min
Sep 7, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Medina62 min
Sep 7, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa60 min
Sep 7, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGoliad58 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.