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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 4, 1995Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kinney County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 288 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 042355 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC271-050100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
653 PM CDT TUE APR 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED IN WESTERN KINNEY
COUNTY ALONG ROUTE 90 NEAR BRACKETTVILLE.
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 3:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde4 hr
Apr 4, 8:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCalhoun34 min
Apr 4, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLa Salle65 min
Apr 4, 8:29 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXCalhoun31 min
Apr 4, 9:08 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXVictoria37 min
Apr 4, 9:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMcMullen61 min
Apr 4, 12:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Medina52 min
Apr 4, 12:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio69 min
Apr 4, 1:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa56 min
Apr 4, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde69 min

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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.