Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 2:43 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 6, 1997, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kinney County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brackettville, TX | Severe winds blew down power poles. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 061946 SVRSAT TXC271-062045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 243 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KINNEY COUNTY AT 242 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN KINNEY COUNTY TO WEST KINNEY COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY WIND AND HIGH WIND OVER KINNEY COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN SOMETIMES PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 59 min |
| Jun 6, 9:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 11:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 68 min |
| Jun 6, 1:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 2 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.