Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 18, 1995, 12:44 AM CST for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1995, 12:44 AM CST (06:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1995, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Karnes County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 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
- 3643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.7
- Supercell composite
- -2.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Dec 17, 11:31 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1131 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
830 PM GIDDINGS 5E TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
12/17/95 LEE COOP OBSVR.
11 PM BANDERA TX 0.25 INCH HAIL
12/17/95 BANDERA BANDERA SHERIFF DEPT.
600 PM DEL RIO TX FUNNEL CLOUDS NE
10/31/95 VAL VERDE NWS EMPLOYEE.
620 PM GIDDINGS TX DIME SIZED HAIL
10/31/95 LEE GIDDINGS S.O.
730 PM DEL RIO TX PEA-MARBLE SIZE HAIL
10/31/95 VAL VERDE NWS EMPLOYEE.
1223 AM NW OF SAN MARCOS TX GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
11/01/95 HAYS SAN MARCOS P.D.Local storm report, Dec 17, 11:37 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1131 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
830 PM GIDDINGS 5E TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
12/17/95 LEE COOP OBSVR.
11 PM BANDERA TX 0.25 INCH HAIL
12/17/95 BANDERA BANDERA SHERIFF DEPT.
600 PM DEL RIO TX FUNNEL CLOUDS NE
10/31/95 VAL VERDE NWS EMPLOYEE.
620 PM GIDDINGS TX DIME SIZED HAIL
10/31/95 LEE GIDDINGS S.O.
730 PM DEL RIO B TX PEA-MARBLE SIZE HAIL
10/31/95 VAL VERDE NWS EMPLOYEE.
1223 AM NW OF SAN MARCOS TX GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
11/01/95 HAYS SAN MARCOS P.D.Local storm report, Dec 17, 11:38 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1138 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
830 PM GIDDINGS 5E TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
12/17/95 LEE COOP OBSVR.
11 PM BANDERA TX 0.25 INCH HAIL
12/17/95 BANDERA BANDERA SHERIFF DEPT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 7:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 60 min |
| Dec 17, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 60 min |
| Dec 17, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 58 min |
| Dec 18, 2:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 67 min |
| Dec 18, 3:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad | 33 min |
| Dec 18, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 61 min |
| Dec 18, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.