Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1996, 6:38 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1996, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Doss, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 012340 SVRSAT TXC171-020045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 638 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GILLESPIE COUNTY AT 636 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON HIGHWAY 87 NEAR CHERRY SPRING IN NORTH CENTRAL GILLESPIE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 68 min |
| May 31, 9:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| May 31, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 31, 11:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.