Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1997, 4:40 PM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 5, 1997, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Prade Ranch, 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
590 WUUS1 KSAT 052141 RRA SVRSAT TXC385-052230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 440 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...REAL COUNTY AT 440 PM A POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ALONG THE NUECES RIVER AND HIGHWAY 335... 13 MILES NORTH OF CAMP WOOD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE CAMP WOOD AREA AROUND 515 PM CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
327 PM CDT THU JUN 05 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM TX 1 INCH HAIL
06/05/97 EDWARDS REPORTED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF HWY 277 &
55 (28NW ROCKSPRINGS)Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
327 PM CDT THU JUN 05 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM TX 1 INCH HAIL
06/05/97 EDWARDS REPORTED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF HWY 277 &
55 (28NW ROCKSPRINGS)Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
342 PM CDT THU JUN 05 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM TX 1 INCH HAIL
06/05/97 EDWARDS REPORTED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF HWY 277 &
55 (28NW ROCKSPRINGS)
0325 PM TX .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/97 REAL REPORT RELAYED TO REAL
SHERIFF FROM 4N OF LEAKYLocal storm report, Jun 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
342 PM CDT THU JUN 05 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM TX 1 INCH HAIL
06/05/97 EDWARDS REPORTED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF HWY 277 &
55 (28NW ROCKSPRINGS)4
0325 PM TX .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/97 REAL REPORT RELAYED TO REAL
SHERIFF FROM 4N OF LEAKYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.