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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 25, 1999Bandera County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1999, 2:03 PM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
Apr 25, 1999, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1999, 2:50 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bandera County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 1999-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1820 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 1999-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
14.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

999 
WUUS1 KSAT 251901 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC019-251950-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
203 PM CDT SUN APR 25 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BANDERA COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 250 PM CDT

* AT 200 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UTOPIA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR UTOPIA WITH THIS
 STORM.  RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL RATES OF NEAR 2 INCHES PER HOUR.
 THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE SOUTHERN BANDERA COUNTY LINE
 REACHING TARPLEY AND MEDINA AROUND 215 AND BANDERA AROUND 230 PM.

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde40 min
Apr 25, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick64 min
Apr 25, 2:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney61 min
Apr 25, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde, Zavala79 min
Apr 25, 5:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar62 min
Apr 25, 7:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards64 min
Apr 25, 9:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards62 min
Apr 25, 9:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real59 min
Apr 25, 10:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real2 hr
Apr 25, 11:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Uvalde49 min
Apr 25, 11:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr3 hr
Apr 25, 12:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal2 hr
Apr 25, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.