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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1987, 5:03 PM CDT for Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1987, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1987, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guadalupe 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 192203
TORSAT
TXC187-192300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
503 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...GUADALUPE
A DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY PATROLMAN REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT
6 MILES SOUTH OF SEGUIN TEXAS MOVING NORTH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST SOUTH OF SEGUIN CONTAINS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PERSONS
IN SEGUIN SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS DANGEROUS STORM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A
CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY.
LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY
ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADI}O...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION
LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.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, May 19, 1:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
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, May 19, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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, May 19, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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, May 19, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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, May 19, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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, May 19, 4:20 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 56 min |
| May 18, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| May 18, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 62 min |
| May 19, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 2 hr |
| May 19, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
| May 19, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 61 min |
| May 19, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 67 min |
| May 19, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 54 min |
| May 19, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 61 min |
| May 19, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 66 min |
| May 19, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 61 min |
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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.