Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1989, 12:10 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1989, 12:10 AM CDT (05:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1989, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Val Verde, TX | |
| Jun 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Val Verde, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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
- 3652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
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, Jun 10, 9:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 935 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 930 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEL RIO TO 80 MILES SOUTHWEST. MUCH LIGHTNING AND A LITTLE RAIN ACCOMPANIED SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY PUSHED THROUGH DEL RIO AND SOUTHEAST VAL VERDE COUNTY IN THE LAST HOUR. ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS WAS ABOUT 80 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO AND APROACHING VAL VERDE COUNTY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. THERE WERE REPORTS OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COMSTOCK AREA AROUND 9 PM BUT NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. LIGHTNING IS AN UNDERRATED DANGER...WHICH KILLS HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS EVERY YEAR. REMAINING INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS DURING A LIGHTNING STORM IS THE SAFEST COURSE OF ACTION. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 947 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989 AT 945 PM RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EAGLE PASS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN UVALDE AND LEAKEY. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AND HOUR. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN THE TEXAS HILL CONTRY AND MOTORISTS WEST OF SAN ANTONIO SHOULD BE ALERT AND EXERCISE CAUTION SHOULD A THUNDERSTORM BE ENCOUNTERED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1030 PM CDT SAT 10 JUNE 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST... AT 1025 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE...15 MILES WIDE...EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES WEST OF WACO PAST LAKE BUCHANAN AND MARBLE FALLS TO LLANO AND ON TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION. THE LINE IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH- EAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND HIGHLAND LAKES DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:12 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1112 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING TIL 1130 PM CDT FOR UVALDAE...SOUTHERN
REAL AND KERR COUNTIES...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING TIL 1145 PM CDT FOR MAVERICK COUNTY...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
WITH THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY AT 11 PM CDT IN NORTHERN UVALDE COUNTY.
OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR EAGLE PASS IN MAVERICK
COUNTY.
MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS TO THE EAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AND HOUR.Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:31 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1130 PM CDT SAT 10 JUNE 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN... AT 1125 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...15 MILES WIDE...NOW EXTENDS FROM JUST WEST OF KILLEEN TO NORTHWEST OF LAKE TRAVIS PAST MARBLE FALLS TO NEAR JOHNSON CITY...FREDERICKSBURG AND KERRVILLE. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND HIGHLAND LAKES DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:50 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1150 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1989 STRONG GUSTY WINDS BEGAN OCCURRING IN DEL RIO AROUND 11 PM CDT. THESE WINDS WERE COMING FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 35 MILES TO THE SOUTHEAST NEAR EAGLE PASS. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 43 MPH WERE RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE SHORTLY AFTER 11 PM. WINDS REMAINED GUSTY IN DEL RIO BUT HAD SUBSIDED AS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO THE SOUTHEAST NEAR EAGLE PASS MOVED FARTHER AWAY. AT 1145 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER DEL RIO AND SOUTHEAST VAL VERDE COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND OCCASIONAL DANGEROUS LIGHTNING< CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV STATIONS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 2:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 3:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 3:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.