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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 5, 1996Victoria County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 6:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr47 min
Apr 4, 7:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall61 min
Apr 4, 8:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Real65 min
Apr 4, 8:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick65 min
Apr 4, 9:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr64 min
Apr 4, 10:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick55 min
Apr 5, 3:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb44 min
Apr 5, 3:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria56 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.