Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 1995, 6:36 PM CST for Edwards County, Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 1995, 6:36 PM CST (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 1995, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 010035 TORSAT TXC137-271-010130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 636 PM CST TUE OCT 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY...NORTHERN KINNEY COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE VAL VERDE/KINNEY/EDWARDS COUNTY LINES. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS FARM ROADS 2523 AND 674. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING. TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW! STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS...BUT GET OUT OF MDOBILE HOMES AND CARS. IF DAMAGE OCCURS NEAR YOU...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK AROUND IN THE DARK. THERE MAY BE DOWNED POWER LINES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 67 min |
| Oct 31, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 56 min |
| Oct 31, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 65 min |
| Oct 31, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 69 min |
| Nov 1, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 58 min |
| Nov 1, 12:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 118 min |
| Nov 1, 12:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 1:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 56 min |
| Nov 1, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 66 min |
| Nov 1, 8:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 60 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.