Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1995, 2:22 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 110722 RRA SVRVCT TXC057-110815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 222 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...CALHOUN COUNTY AND SAN ANTONIO BAY... AT 115 AM CDT VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA MOVING TOWARD CALHOUN COUNTY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HIGH WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MPH AND LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SAN ANTONIO BAY BY 230 AM THEN MOVE FROM NEAR TIVOLI TO SEA DRIFT BY 240 AM. HIGH NORTH WINDS OF 62 MPH WERE RECORDED AT THE VICTORIA NWS AT 115 AM. THESE WINDS WILL AFFECT PERSONS IN CALHOUN COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STRONGER SHELTER. 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, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 36 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.