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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 9, 1995Maverick County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1995, 7:03 PM CDT for Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 1995, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Maverick County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KSAT 100003 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC323-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
703 PM CDT SUN APR 9 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
 
   ...MAVERICK COUNTY
 
AT 700 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLE RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAGLE PASS. MOVEMENT WAS
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE EAGLE PASS AREA
WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick65 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.