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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 7, 1995Gillespie County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1995, 9:10 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
65 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, 2.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2882 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 406 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal37 min
May 7, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde68 min
May 7, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKerr, Real65 min
May 7, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie55 min
May 7, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde45 min
May 7, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Llano57 min
May 7, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Llano63 min
May 7, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick63 min
May 7, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet69 min
May 8, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Llano50 min
May 8, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr55 min
May 8, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde, Zavala60 min
May 8, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson40 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.