Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 8:50 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1995, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 080151 SVRSAT TXC171-080245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 850 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GILLESPIE COUNTY AT 850 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN NEW BRAUNFELS...TEXAS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF MOUNTAIN HOME MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO GILLESPIE COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. 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. 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS A TORNADO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 68 min |
| May 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr, Real | 65 min |
| May 7, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 65 min |
| May 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 45 min |
| May 7, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 57 min |
| May 7, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 63 min |
| May 7, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 63 min |
| May 7, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 69 min |
| May 8, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 50 min |
| May 8, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 55 min |
| May 8, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 60 min |
| May 8, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 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.