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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 13, 1996Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1996, 2:56 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
Aug 13, 1996, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1996, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kinney County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1274 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 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 KSJT 131956
SVRSAT
TXC271-132100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
ISSUED BY SAN ANGELO TX
256 PM CDT TUE AUG 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KINNEY COUNTY
 
A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS...WAS
INDICATED BY BY DOPPLER RADAR OVER KINNEY COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD
THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXLavaca48 min
Aug 12, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt, Lavaca66 min
Aug 13, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXZavala45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.