Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 7:16 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 090017 SVRSAT TXC029-090115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 716 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY AT 714 PM CDT A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES WEST OF LEON SPRINGS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CA*N INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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, 4 hours 41 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.
Special weather statement, May 8, 3:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ171>173-185>194-203>208-218>221-228>230-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 326 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM FOR MEDINA COUNTY... AT 320 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN MEDINA COUNTY JUST NORTH OF CASTROVILLE MOVING NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM HELOTES TO LUCKENBACH AND FROM HONDO SOUTHWARD TO COTULLA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL. AFTERNOON HEATING IN COMBINATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 8, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
TXZ220-187-193-205-190-172-206-184-209-219-188-207-191-189-186- 171-204-192-183-173-221-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 550 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996 ...THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR FRIO COUNTY... AT 545PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EASTERN FRIO COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL... IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES... FELL OVER PEARSALL BETWEEN 4 AND 530 THIS AFTERNOON. THERE SEVERAL REPORTS OF 3/4 INCH HAIL AND ONE REPORT OF HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. STREET FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED THERE. ELSEWHERE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO FALLING OVER THE HILL COUNTRY FROM NEAR BANDERA TO JOHNSON CITY TO PLEASANTON. OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN BOE4RNE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING ACROSS THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. &
Local storm report, May 8, 7:01 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
700 PM CDT WED MAY 08 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 8S PIPE CREEK TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 BANDERA REPORTED BY SAN ANTONIO
EXPRESS NEWS NEWSPAPER ON
MEDINA LAKE
0456 PM PEARSALL TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 FRIO REPORTED BY PEARSALL #2
0503 PM PEARSALL TX .88 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 FRIO REPORTED BY PEARSALL #2
0510 PM PEARSALL TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 FRIO REPORTED BY SAN ANTONIO
EXPRESS NEWS
0615 PM PEARSALL TX
05/08/96 FRIO 3.30 - 3.60 INCHES OF RAIN
IN 2 HOURS
0630 PM PEARSALL TX
05/08/96 FRIO 1N PEARSALL 4.25 - 4.75
INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS.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.