Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

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.

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

AT 310 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS  HAD DEVELOPED SOUTH OF
COMSTOCK AND EXTENDED TO THE NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY. THE
LARGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR COMSTOCK. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG
GUSTY WIND|S ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.

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

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL SCATTERED AROUND CENTRAL TEXAS...

NUMEROUS SMALL... BUT QUITE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHWARD AT 20 MPH OVER CENTRAL TEXAS.  THE
HEAVIEST RAINS WERE ALONG A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM CENTRAL BELL
COUNTY TO LAKE TRAVIS... NEW BRAUNFELS AND ON SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO.

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

AT 415 PM CDT LOCAL WEATHER RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS
OVER NEARLY ALL OF THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA. VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST HAYS COUNTY AND IN EASTERN HAYS COUNTY. THESE
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND WILL BE
MOVING ACROSS HAYS COUNTY AND INTO TRAVIS COUNTY BY 5 PM.

OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF BURNET AND NEAR
JOHNSON CITY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL
UNTIL 9 PM THIS TUESDAY EVENING.

RUSH HOUR MOTORISTS IN AUSTIN SHOULD ANTICIPATE SOME HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLE SMAALL HAIL ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS WHILE DRIVING HOME.