Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 1996, 10:59 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Sep 14, 1996, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 150359 TORSAT TXC137-150500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1059 PM CDT SAT SEP 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY AT POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST EDWARDS COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF CARTA VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. TAKE COVER IF YOUR ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW! STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS...BUT GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND CARS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Sep 14, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 61 min |
| Sep 14, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 62 min |
| Sep 14, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 64 min |
| Sep 15, 12:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 64 min |
| Sep 15, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 55 min |
| Sep 15, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 68 min |
| Sep 15, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 60 min |
| Sep 15, 5:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 44 min |
| Sep 15, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
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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.