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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 4, 1996Kendall County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1996, 7:29 PM CST for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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: Apr 4, 1996, 7:29 PM CST (01:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 1996, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Kendall County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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
Apr 4, 7:52 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Comfort, TX
Apr 4, 7:55 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Comfort, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 050131
SVRSAT
TXC259-050230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
729 PM CST THU APR 4 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KENDALL COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CENTER POINT. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED A SWATH OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL FROM
NORTHERN REAL COUNTY ACROSS SOUTHERN KERR COUNTY.
 
THE LATEST REPORT OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL CAME IN FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF
CENTER POINT.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH ENTERING KENDALL COUNTY ABOUT 10 MIL
SOUTH OF COMFORT AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY TO THE NORTH OF BOERNE.
 
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
Apr 4, 6:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	47 min
Apr 4, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	65 min
Apr 4, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Maverick	65 min
Apr 4, 9:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	64 min
Apr 4, 10:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Maverick	55 min
Apr 5, 3:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Webb	44 min
Apr 5, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Victoria	67 min
Apr 5, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Victoria	56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.