Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1990, 6:15 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1990, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bastrop 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 KAUS 172316 SVRAUS TXC021-180015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 615 PM CDT THU MAY 17 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WESTERN BASTROP COUNTY AUSTIN RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF ROSANSKY MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, May 17, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
TXZ036-180000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 350 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1990 AT 345 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED ON THE FAYETTE...LAVACA COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTH AT 5 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. RESIDENTS IN FAYETTE COUNTY SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THESE ST^ORMS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS IN THE NEXT TWO HOURS.
Special weather statement, May 17, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TXZ036-180000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO TIMES... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 450 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1990 AT 445 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED ON THE FAYETTE...LAVACA COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTH AT 5 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. RESIDENTS IN FAYETTE COUNTY }SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THESE STORMS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS IN THE NEXT TWO HOURS.
Special weather statement, May 17, 5:28 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
TXZ039-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 525 PM CDT THU MAY 17 1990 SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. DURING THE NEXT HOUR HEAVY SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED WITHIN THE CITY ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING AS A RESULT OF AFTERNOON HEATING AND A STATIONARY FRONT OVER THE AREA. THE SHOWERS WILL BE DRIFING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. ACTIVITY SHOULD START TO DISIPATE IN AN HOUR OR SO.
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.