Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 9:58 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1995, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 060304 SVRSAT TXC137-060400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 958 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY AT 955 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING EDWARDS COUNTY 25 MILES NORTH OF ROCKSPINGS. IT IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE CLOSE TO THE SOUTH LLANO RIVER AND APPROACH ROUTE 377 IN 30 MINUTES. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF HAIL LARGER THAN 1 INCH IN SIZE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FRORM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. AVOID THE SOUTH LLANO RIVER.
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, May 5, 5:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
TXZ204-205-219-220-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO... AT 455 PM CDT...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO...BETWEEN COTULLA AND HONDO...AND WERE MOVING NORTHWARD AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THESE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF BEXAR...MEDINA...ATASCOSA...AND FRIO COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. OCCASIOANL LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ187-189-204-205-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 525 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO... AT 525 PM CDT...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED NORTH OF HONDO OR TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO...MOVING NORTHWARD AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THESE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS2 AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF BEXAR...MEDINA...BANDERA...AND KENDALL COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. OCCASIOANL LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ186-187-189-204-205-060045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 545 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO... AT 545 PM CDT...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED NORTH OF HONDO OR TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO...MOVING NORTHWARD AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED WEST OF MEDINA LAKE. THESE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF BANDERA...KENDALL...KERR...NORTHWEST BEXAR AND NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. OCCASIOANAL LIGHTNING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ186-187-189-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 611 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO... AT 605 PM CDT...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED OVER EASTERN BANDERA COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN BANDERA COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE SOME HAIL...BRIEF GUSTY WIND...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES OVER EASTERN BANDERA COUNTY AND POSSIBLY AFFECTS THE WEST PART OF KENDALL AND EAST PART OF KERR COUNTY IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.
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.