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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 10, 1995Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 8:48 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 1995, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
42 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, 1.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3123 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
3123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 110152 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC029-110230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
848 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HELOTES MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH.  THIS TRACK WILL TAKE THE STORM ACROSS NORTHERN SAN ANTONIO.
 
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 10, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina65 min
Apr 10, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde25 min
Apr 10, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina, Uvalde60 min
Apr 10, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar65 min
Apr 10, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio69 min
Apr 10, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa51 min
Apr 10, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe51 min
Apr 10, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilson54 min
Apr 10, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMcMullen35 min
Apr 10, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKarnes47 min
Apr 10, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb62 min
Apr 11, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria36 min
Apr 11, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCalhoun53 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.