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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 2, 1996Kerr County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 8:26 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 2, 1996, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kerr County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 8:40 PM CDTHailIngram, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 399 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -39 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
399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar63 min
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, 8:30 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

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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.