Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1996, 12:56 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 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
- Sep 15, 1996, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1996, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Blewitt, 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 150600 TORSAT TXC463-150700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1256 AM CDT SUN SEP 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN UVALDE COUNTY AT 1255 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING FROM THE UVALDE AND ZAVALA COUNTY LINE TOWARDS THE CITIES OF DABNEY AND BLEWETT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO THE CENTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING...COVER YOUR HEAD. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. DO NOT STAY IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING. 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, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 61 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, 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 |
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.