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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1995, 11:04 PM CDT for Blanco County, Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1995, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blanco County, TX, Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 200404 TORSAT TXC031-171-200500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1104 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BLANCO COUNTY...GILLESPIE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE LBJ RANCH IN EXTREME EASTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY AND MOVING INTO WESTERN BLANCO COUNTY. TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. 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 MOBILE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 69 min |
| Apr 19, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 55 min |
| Apr 20, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.