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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 5, 1996Victoria County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1996, 3:49 PM CST for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 1996, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 56 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, 9.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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

000 
TTAA00 KVCT 052152
SVRVCT
TXC469-052245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
349 PM CST FRI APR 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN VICTORIA COUNTY
 
AT 345 PM VICTORIA RADAR INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PLACEDO.
THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN
WOOD HI AND INEZ ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WI8ND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, 3 hours 26 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, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Victoria	67 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.