Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 12:47 AM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1995, 12:47 AM CST (06:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1995, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 010647 RRA SVRSAT TXC029-325-010845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1247 AM CST WED NOV 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY...NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MEDINA LAKE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WILL TRACK ACROSS MEDINA LAKE INTO BEXAR COUNTY. THE TOWNS OF HELOTES... LEON SPRINGS... AND NORTHERN SAN ANTONIO ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOhULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 6:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 54 min |
| Oct 31, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 67 min |
| Oct 31, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 56 min |
| Oct 31, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 65 min |
| Oct 31, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 69 min |
| Nov 1, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 58 min |
| Nov 1, 12:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 1:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 56 min |
| Nov 1, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 66 min |
| Nov 1, 8:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 60 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.