Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 17, 1989, 2:00 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1989, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1989, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 3533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 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 16, 9:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 955 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989 ...THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER FOR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU EXTENDED UNTIL 400 AM... THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER FOR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT EDWARD PLATEAU HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 400 AM EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED DURING THE EVENING HOURS OVER NORTHEASTERN MEXICO AND HAVE MOVED INTO THE WESTERN TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND EDWARDS PLATEAU FROM DEL RIO TO JUNCTION. AT 10 PM THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE EXTENDED FROM VAL VERDE COUNTY SOUTHWARD INTO MEXICO WEST OF KINNEY AND MAVERICK COUNTIES. PERSONS IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE EDWARDS PLATEAU ARE URGED TO REMAIN AWARE OF THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT AND LISTEN FOR ANY REQUIRED WEATHER UPDATES AND WARNINGS.
Local storm report, May 17, 12:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1210 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1989
TIME EVENT
1151 PM CDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES WEST OF BRACKETVILLE REPORTED
BY THE KINNEY COUNTY SHERIFF.Local storm report, May 17, 1:01 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
100 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1989
TIME EVENT
1151 PM CDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES WEST OF BRACKETVILLE REPORTED
BY THE KINNEY COUNTY SHERIFF.
1208 AM CDT CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO A RANCH HEADQUARTERS IN KINNEY
COUNTY, BARN DAMAGE, HOUSE DESTROYED, REPORTED BY SHERIFF.Special weather statement, May 17, 1:28 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 0120 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM THIS MORNING FOR TRAVIS AND ALL SURROUNDING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE HIIL COUNTRY... AT 105 AM RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE NEAR DEL RIO AND MOVE NORTHEAST. THIS AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR EAGLE PASS AND DEL RIO NORTHEAST ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY ACROSS THE JUNCTION AREA TO NEAR BROWNWOOD AND STEPHENVILLE. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE NEAR AND EAST OF DEL RIO. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THE CENTR-AL TEXAS AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 45 min |
| May 16, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 40 min |
| May 16, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| May 16, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 69 min |
| May 16, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 60 min |
| May 16, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 40 min |
| May 16, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 66 min |
| May 17, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 45 min |
| May 17, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| May 17, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 62 min |
| May 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| May 17, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 65 min |
| May 17, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 36 min |
| May 17, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 46 min |
| May 17, 8:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 4 hr |
| May 17, 8:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 17, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 66 min |
| May 17, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 44 min |
| May 17, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 3 hr |
| May 17, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee, Milam | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 3 hr |
| May 17, 2:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 118 min |
| May 17, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 58 min |
| May 17, 3:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 75 min |
| May 17, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burleson, Lee | 75 min |
| May 17, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 75 min |
| May 17, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 60 min |
| May 17, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad, Victoria | 63 min |
| May 17, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad | 57 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.