Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 8:14 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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, 1.2 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
- 2759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVCT 230115 SVRVCT TXC469-230200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 814 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY AT 810 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VICTORIA NEAR THE TOWN OF FANNIN. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN THE TOWN OF GOLIAD AS THE STORM MOVED THROUGH AT 755 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE KEMPER CITY...BLOOMINGTON...AND DERNAL. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND HIGH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 8:13 PM CDT, 1 minute before
TXZ172-173-191>194-205>209-221>225-230230- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 810 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 810 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR KARNES COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR WILLIAMSON COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE COASTAL PLAINS AND THE COASTAL BEND AREA... AT 810 PM CDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS WILLIAMSON AND LEE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. ANOTHER AREA OF WEAKENING STORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF SAN ANTONIO TO SOUTH OF AUSTIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES PER HOUR. ALL STORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG AND BEHIND A COLD FRONT WHICH IS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THESE STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT FOR POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Calhoun | 40 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.