Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 1996, 2:05 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Sep 15, 1996, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado F2 | Utopia, TX |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Sep 14, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 61 min |
| Sep 14, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 62 min |
| Sep 14, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 61 min |
| Sep 14, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 64 min |
| Sep 15, 12:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 64 min |
| Sep 15, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 68 min |
| Sep 15, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 60 min |
| Sep 15, 5:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 44 min |
| Sep 15, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.