Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 1995, 10:56 PM CST for Bandera County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 1995, 10:56 PM CST (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1995, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bandera County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 130458 RRA SVRSAT TXC019-265-130600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1056 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...BANDERA COUNTY...KERR COUNTY AT 1050 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BANDERA COUNTY...FROM MEDINA TO PIPE CREEK...MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH INTO KERR COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF KERRVILLE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. 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. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 9:40 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ183-130445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 940 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CST MONDAY MORNING... AT 935 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SAN ANGELO INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED EARLIER HAD MOVED EAST OF VAL VERDE COUNTY. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. REMEMEBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND CABLE TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 9:41 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ183-130445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 940 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CST MONDAY MORNING... AT 935 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SAN ANGELO INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED EARLIER HAD MOVED EAST OF VAL VERDE COUNTY. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. REMEMEBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND CABLE TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 10:00 PM CST, 56 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-194-209-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1000 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM FOR TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...HAYS... BURNET...BLANCO...LLANO...SAN SABA AND GILLIESPIE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NOW INCLUDES TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...HAYS...BLANCO... BURNET...SAN SABA...LLANO...GILLESPIE...LEE...BASTROP...CALDWELL AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... AT 955 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM THE CITY OF SAN SABA TO PONTOTOC TO HARPER IN WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LEACH
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 10:01 PM CST, 55 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-194-209-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1000 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM FOR TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...HAYS... BURNET...BLANCO...LLANO...SAN SABA AND GILLIESPIE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NOW INCLUDES TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...HAYS...BLANCO... BURNET...SAN SABA...LLANO...GILLESPIE...LEE...BASTROP...CALDWELL AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... AT 955 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM THE CITY OF SAN SABA TO PONTOTOC TO HARPER IN WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...VEvRY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LEACH
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 10:38 PM CST, 18 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-194-209-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1040 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM FOR TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...HAYS... BURNET...BLANCO...LLANO...SAN SABA...GILLIESPIE...LEE...BASTROP... CALDWELL AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY FOR THE SAME COUNTIES... AT 1030 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF SAN SABA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF LLANO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS DRIFTING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL REACH BURNET...MARBLE FALLS AND JOHNSON CITY BY 1130 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS PASS. LEACH
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 10:40 PM CST, 16 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-194-209-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1040 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM FOR TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...HAYS... BURNET...BLANCO...LLANO...SAN SABA...GILLIESPIE...LEE...BASTROP... CALDWELL AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY FOR THE SAME COUNTIES... AT 1030 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF SAN SABA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF LLANO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS DRIFTING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL REACH BURNET...MARBLE FALLS AND JOHNSON CITY BY 1130 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS PASS. LEACH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 67 min |
| Mar 12, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 68 min |
| Mar 12, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 11:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, La Salle | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 55 min |
| Mar 12, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 69 min |
| Mar 13, 12:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 3:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 50 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.