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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 6, 1989Mills County, San Saba County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1989, 10:06 PM CDT for Mills County, San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 1989, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1989, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mills County, TX, San Saba 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 299 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 6, 4:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
440 PM CDT TUE JUN 06 1989

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH
FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS...INCLUDING EDWARDS COUNTY IN THE
WESTERN HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 1100 PM.  THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP OVER THE TRANSPECOS REGION THIS EVENING AND MOVE EASTWARD
TOWARD EDWARDS COUNTY.  SOME STORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED WEST NEAR
SANDERSON.  IT WILL BE SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE THESE STORMS COULD REACH
EDWARDS COUNTY.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR
THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISSUE PERIODICAL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTS AS
THESE STORMS APPROACH THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE
WATCH AREA ARE URGED TO KEEP AN EYE ON DEVELOPING WEATHER AND BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY IF SEVERE WEATHER
MOVES INTO THE AREA.

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 6:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX
647 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1989

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TONIGHT FOR VAL VERDE
COUNTY...

AT 640 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE
NORTHWEST VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF PANDALE
CROSSING. ANOTHER INTENSE STORM WAS 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEL RIO IN
MEXICO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

MOTORISTS TRAVELING IN WEST AND NORTHWEST VAL VERDE COUNTY SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND SLOWER TRAFFIC DUE TO HEAVY RAIN.

REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT THE POSSIBLITY OF SEVERE WEATHER
AND TORNADOES EXIST IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREpA. IF THREATENING
WEATHER IS SIGHTED TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TY AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATION FOR
THE FURTHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 7:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:42 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	54 min
Jun 6, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	58 min
Jun 6, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	65 min
Jun 6, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	68 min
Jun 7, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Travis	65 min
Jun 7, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Milam	66 min
Jun 7, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco	3 hr
Jun 7, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Shelby	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.