Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
920 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SCATTERED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
WEST OF AUSTIN...

AT 915 AM...RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND
FROM NEAR BROWNWOOD TO LAMPASAS THEN TO LAKE TRAVIS AND NEW BRAUNFELS
AND ON INTO THE COASTAL BEND NEAR CORPUS CHRISTI.  THE HEAVIEST RAINS
WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF GOLDTHWAITE AND WEST OF LAKE BUCHANAN TO NORTH
OF JOHNSON CITY AND FREDERICKSBURG.  NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE
FIRING BETWEEN JUNCTION AND SAN ANTONIO.

THE ENTIRE RAIN AREA WAS SPREADING SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD...WHILE
INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVE NORTHWARD AT 25 MPH.

KEEP A CLOSE CHECK ON LATER FORECASTS AND LISTEN FOR ANY OTHER STATEMENTS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1030 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED
OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THIS MORNING.  ALL OF THIS
ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MPH.  THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT MOVED THROUGH SAN ANTONIO EARLIER THIS MORNING HAVE MOVED INTO THE
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY.

ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED ALONG A DRY AREA
SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO.  THIS LINE WAS LOCATED FROM THE GARNER STATE
PARK AREA SOUTHEAST TO NEAR PLEASANTON AND SHOULD MOVE INTO BEXAR COUNTY
DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.  OTHERWISE LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL
CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGHOUT THE MORNING.

MOST RAINFALL REPORTS SO FAR THIS MORNING WERE IN THE ONE HALF TO ONE
INCH CATEGORY WITH A FEW ISOLATED AREAS IN THE HILL COUNTRY REPORTING
2 TO 3 INCHES.  A FEW OF THE HEAVIER AMOUNTS WERE 3.00 INCHES AT
BANDERA...2.60 AT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CENTER POINT...1.95 PIPE CREEK...
1.77 AT MEDINA...AND 1.60 INCHES AT CENTER POINT.

THE AIR OVER SOUTH TEXAS WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE THROUGHOUT THE
AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING AND THE CHANCES OF RAIN WILL STAY HIGH FUNTIL
THE UPPER AIR DISTUBANCE OVER WEST TEXAS MOVES NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF
THE AREA.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX
128 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

AT 125 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES WEST OF DEL RIO
MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD LAKE AMISTAD.

HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

BOATERS ON LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD KEEP A LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO
SEEK SAFE HARBOR.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
158 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...HAIL AND TORNADOES NORTHWEST AND NORTH OF AUSTIN...

AT 128 PM THE D.P.S. UNIT AT LAMPASAS RELAYED A REPORT OF A SMALL
TORNADO WHICH PASSED THROUGH THE EAST SIDE OF THE CITY OF SAN SABA.
SOME DAMAGE TO HOUSES AND TREES DOWN, BUT NO INJURIES REPORTED AT
THIS TIME.

AT 150 PM...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ON THE WEST AND NORTH
SIDE OF CEDAR PARK, MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARDS THE NORTH.  ALSO A BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOUR WITH THE HAIL.

JUST BEFORE 2 PM...THE WACO OFFICE ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR THAT
CITY.

NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF SAN ANTONIO NEAR
SEGUIN AND LULING WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHWARD TOWARDS AUSTIN.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
232 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF SAN
MARCOS...

WIDELY SCATTERED BUT VERY SHORT-LIVED> INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
TO RAPIDLY FORM AND MOVE NORTHWARD AT 20 MPH OVER CENTRAL TEXAS.  THE
HEAVIEST RAINS WERE NORTH OF GEORGETOWN...NEAR JARRELL AND ABOUT HALF
WAY BETWEEN SAN MARCOS AND SEGUIN.