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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 2, 1996Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 7:27 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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 2, 1996, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bexar County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 7:27 PM CDTHail 0.75San Antonio, TX
Jun 2, 7:45 PM CDTHail 1.75San Antonio, 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1287 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 030031
SVRSAT
TXC029-030130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
727 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BEXAR COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN BEXAR
COUNTRY. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING HAIL TO AN INCH AND A HALF. THIS
STORM IS MOVING WEST AT 5 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.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr60 min
Jun 2, 7:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr, Real3 hr
Jun 2, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal59 min
Jun 2, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina57 min
Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales60 min
Jun 2, 8:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde68 min
Jun 2, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde68 min
Jun 2, 8:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr2 hr
Jun 2, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr2 hr
Jun 2, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney60 min
Jun 2, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe56 min
Jun 2, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Bexar, Medina60 min
Jun 2, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLavaca2 hr
Jun 2, 9:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXMedina3 hr
Jun 2, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal55 min
Jun 2, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell66 min
Jun 2, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe, Wilson56 min
Jun 3, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales, Lavaca69 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.