Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 1987, 7:36 AM CST for Jackson County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 1987, 7:36 AM CST (13:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 1987, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson 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
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 3540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KVCT 161336
TORVCT
TXC239-161430-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
736 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...JACKSON
SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN LA
WARD AT 722 AM. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR HIGH WAY 59 ABOUT
THE SAME TIME. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Nov 16, 1:49 AM CST, 5 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 149 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY INCLUDING THE CITY OF DEL RIO UNTIL 800 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING... THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 70 MILES WEST OF COTULLA TEXAS TO COLLEGE STATION TEXAS. AT 145 AM RADAR INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. ISOLATED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEL RIO IN OLD MEXICO. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAa. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Nov 16, 2:28 AM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
225 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987
TIME EVENT
BETWEEN POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN OR STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS
2 AM AND TOOK ROOF OFF STORE IN INGRAM TEXAS. INGRAM LOCATED JUST
205 AM CST NORTHEAST OF KERRVILLE ON IH 10. REPORT RECEIVED FROM
KERR COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.Special weather statement, Nov 16, 4:02 AM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 402 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...VAL VERDE COUNTY IS NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA ISSUED EARLIER THIS MONDAY MORNING... AT 355 AM RADAR INDICATED ALL PRECIPITATION HAD MOVED EAST OF VAL VERDE COUNTY. RAINSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF DEL RIO TO 35 MILES SOUTH IN OLD MEXICO. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP IN THE VAL VERDE COUNTY AREA. THE NATION@AL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT THE DEL RIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RECIEVED ONLY .02 INCH OF RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 32 MPH DURING THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PASSED THROUGH THE DEL RIO AREA AROUND MID-NIGHT.
Local storm report, Nov 16, 7:11 AM CST, 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
710 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987
TIME EVENT
BETWEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTINGS IN AND AROUND
4 AM AND SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY. NO TOUCHDOWNS CONFIRMED.
6 AM CST UNOFFICIAL WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MPH IN THE CITY.
SOME TREE LIMB DAMAGE. CONSIDERABLE LIGHTNING STRIKES.
SOME POWER OUTAGES AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL MALFUNCTIONS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Nov 16, 1:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 67 min |
| Nov 16, 1:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 69 min |
| Nov 16, 2:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 55 min |
| Nov 16, 2:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 59 min |
| Nov 16, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 64 min |
| Nov 16, 2:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 62 min |
| Nov 16, 2:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 62 min |
| Nov 16, 3:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | McMullen | 55 min |
| Nov 16, 3:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 56 min |
| Nov 16, 3:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 67 min |
| Nov 16, 3:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 65 min |
| Nov 16, 5:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 56 min |
| Nov 16, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| Nov 16, 7:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 56 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.