Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1996, 2:53 PM CST for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- Apr 5, 1996, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1996, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Victoria County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 5, 12:23 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1214 PM CST FRI APR 05 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM 5 SW HUNT TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 KERR
0650 PM 8 SW KERRVILLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 KERR
0705 PM CAMP VERDE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 KERR
0725 PM 6 S CENTER PT TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 KERR
0752 PM 2 S COMFORT TX .88 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 KENDALL
0755 PM COMFORT TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 KENDALL
0805 PM 8 SE ROCKSPRINGS TX 1 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 EDWARDS
0840 PM 10 N LEAKEY TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 REAL
0857 PM 15 N LEAKEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 REAL
0934 PM EAGLE PASS TX 2 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 MAVERICK WIDESPREAD GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL ACROSS THE CITY. ROOF
OF HOUSE COLLAPSED DUE TO
WEIGHT OF HAIL ON SOUTH
SIDE OF TOWN.
1020 PM EL INDIO TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 MAVERICK
1030 PM 9E EL INDIO TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/96 MAVERICK
1030 PM 6S KERRVILLE v TX 0.75 INCH HAIL REPOTED SOUTH
04/04/96 KERR OF KERRVILLE TO KRNH RADIO.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 64 min |
| Apr 4, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 3:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.