Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1986, 3:35 PM CDT for Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 1986, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1986, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maverick County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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
- 1581 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 012035 SVRSAT TXC323-012130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 335 PM CDT THU MAY 1 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF TEXAS...MAVERICK AT 330 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF EAGLE PASS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. AT THE PRESENT RATE OF MOVEMENT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS VERY NEAR TO EAGLE PASS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN THIS STORM. IN ADDITION..LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING OFTEN ACCOMPANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
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
Special weather statement, May 1, 10:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1010 AM CDT THU MAY 01 1986 AT 1005 AM AUSTIN RADAR SHOWS THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE SOSUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND NOW ARE LOCATED FROM EAST OF COLLEGE STATION TO LA GRANGE TO BETWEEN LULING AND GONZALES AND TO SAN ANTONIO AND NEW BRAUNFELS. MODERATE SHOWERS ARE FROM ROCKDALE TO BASTROP AND SAN MARCOS. A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT RAIN COVERS THE AREA FROM HEMPSTEAD TO HALLETTSVILLE TO SAN ANTONIO TO MARBLE FALLS AND NORTH OF WACO. MOTORISTS SHOULD STILL BE WARY OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AS RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO. AT THIS TIME THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED FOR THE IMMEDIATE AUSTIN AREA.
Special weather statement, May 1, 10:16 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1015 AM CST THU MAY 1 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS FROM BEXAR COUNTY EAST OVER GUADALUPE..WILSON.. AND GONZALES COUNTIES... A LINE OF THUNDERSTRORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM THE SAN ANTONIO AREA SOUTHEAST TO NEAR FLORESVILLE EASTWARD TO NEAR GONZALES. THE LINE HAS PRODUCED BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..SOME HAIL TO MARBLE SIZE AND GUSTY WINDS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY AND ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AND THE CITY SAN ANTONIO COULD STILL EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Special weather statement, May 1, 11:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1110 AM CST THU MAY 1 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS ENDING ACROSS BEXAR COUNTY....
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS..AND
MARBLE SIZED HAIL ACROSS NORTH AND NORTHEAST SAN ANTONIO EARLIER THIS
MORNING CONTINUES TO MOVE EATWARDS AWAY FROM SAN ANTONIO. AT 11 AM CDT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
SOUTHEAST BEXAR COUoNTY HOWEVER THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE OUT OF
THE AREA WITHIN THE HOUR.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.Special weather statement, May 1, 3:24 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
320 PM CDT THU MAY 1 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS IN MAVERICK AND KINNEY COUNTIES....
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN
MAVERICK COUNTY TO THE EAST OF QUEMADO MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 TO 15
MPH..OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR ACROSS SOUTHERN KINNEY
COUNTY. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS..HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | La Salle, McMullen | 60 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.