Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 5:43 AM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 27, 1996, 5:43 AM CDT (10:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 2195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
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 27, 5:40 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
TXZ187-193-205-190-172-206-184-188-207-189-186-202-171-204-185- 192-203-183-173-271145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 536 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND THE EDWARDS PLATEAU WILL EXPIRE AT 600 AM... AT 530 AM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND THE EDWARDS PLATEAU EXTENDING FROM LANGTRY NORTHEAST TO ROCKSPRINGS...FREDERICKSBURG AND LAMPASAS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING EAST OF ROCKSPRINGS...EAST OF JUNCTION AND NORTHWEST OF LLANO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR EDWARDS COUNTY WERE ALLOWED TO EXPI .SMALL HAIL, HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WERE REPORTED FROM ROCKSPRINGS. THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THE STORM WENT JUST NORTH OF THERE. SOME OF THE STORMS DUMPED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME AREAS ACCORDING TO DOPPLER RAINFALL ESTIMATES. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED ON A DRY LINE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT TRAILING FROM THE LARGE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE GREAT PLAINS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR NOW BUT THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN THROUGH OUT THE DAY FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 44 min |
| May 27, 6:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 2 hr |
| May 27, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 52 min |
| May 27, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 67 min |
| May 27, 8:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 59 min |
| May 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 45 min |
| May 27, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 25 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.