Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 9:35 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 110237 SVRSAT TXC465-110330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 935 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...VAL VERDE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED IN THE CITY OF DEL AREA WITH HAIL NEAR 3/4 INCH DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 KNOTS ALREADY REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO 1 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. &
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 10, 9:28 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
TXZ183>185-202-203-217-110315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 925 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE DEL RIO VICINITY THIS EVENING FROM MEXICO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF DEL RIO AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE DEL RIO AREA IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO 1 HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST EDWARDS COUNTY AND NORTHERN MAVERICK COUNTY. MOVE WAS GENERALLY NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 37 min |
| May 10, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| May 10, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 54 min |
| May 11, 11:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 67 min |
| May 11, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 67 min |
| May 11, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 55 min |
| May 11, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano, Williamson | 70 min |
| May 11, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales | 55 min |
| May 11, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 63 min |
| May 11, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 63 min |
| May 11, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 67 min |
| May 11, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 62 min |
| May 11, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.