Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1995, 12:24 AM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 12:24 AM CDT (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Victoria County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KVCT 110524 RRA SVRVCT TXC469-110600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 1224 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY AT 1222 AM CDT VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WILL MOVE FROM NEAR KEMPER CITY TO THE TOWN OF BLOOMINGTON BETWEEN 1230 AND 1 AM CDT. THIS STORM MOVED ACROSS GOLIAD COUNTY PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL. PERSONS IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES RAPIDLY EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 65 min |
| Apr 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 25 min |
| Apr 10, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 65 min |
| Apr 10, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 69 min |
| Apr 10, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 51 min |
| Apr 10, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 51 min |
| Apr 10, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | McMullen | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Calhoun | 53 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.