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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 8, 1996Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 3:19 PM CDT for Medina 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
May 8, 1996, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Medina County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 1996-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 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 1996-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-466 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, May 8, 2:35 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
TXZ185>191-203>208-218>220-082030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
235 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996

AT 225 PM...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN
PIPE CREEK AND BOERNE.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MPH.  THIS STORM
LIKELY CONTAINS GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.  ANOTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR DEVINE...WHILE ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE LOCA2TED FROM
BANDERA TO PEARSALL TO SAN ANTONIO.

AFTERNOON HEATING IN COMBINATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...A
FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera40 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio43 min
May 8, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.