Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1995, 3:10 AM CST for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1995, 3:10 AM CST (09:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1995, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:19 AM CST | Tornado F0 | La Grange, TX | A small tornado struck an outbuilding and moved mobile homes off their pads a it struck briefly near La Grange. The tornado moved southeastward, doing minor roof damage and knocking over some street signs before lifting up and disappearing. It picked up a tw |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 67 min |
| Mar 12, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 68 min |
| Mar 12, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 11:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, La Salle | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 55 min |
| Mar 12, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 69 min |
| Mar 13, 12:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.