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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 14, 1996Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 6:09 PM CDT for Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 1996, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kinney County, TX, Uvalde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 142312
SVRSAT
TXC271-463-150015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
609 PM CDT WED AUG 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KINNEY COUNTY...UVALDE COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR
12 MILES NORTHWEST OF UVALDE COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS WINDS ABOVE 60 MPH.
 
ANOTHER STORM SOUTH OF SABINAL COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLavaca63 min
Aug 14, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal56 min
Aug 14, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal68 min
Aug 14, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays68 min
Aug 14, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera68 min
Aug 14, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe62 min
Aug 14, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales66 min
Aug 14, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson56 min
Aug 14, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa56 min

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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.