Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1990, 6:34 PM CDT for Jackson County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1990, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 KVCT 312337 SVRVCT TXC239-010030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 634 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF GANADO MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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, Aug 31, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
TXZ054-312315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 454 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 1990 AT 450 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS IN NORTHEAST VAL VERDE COUNTY...FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEL RIO TO NORTH OF JUNO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. MOTORISTS TRAVELING IN NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS WET AND SLIPPERY ROADS ALONG WITH REDUCED VISIBILITY IN THE SHOWERS COULD PRESENT A DRIVING HAZARD. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD BE ON THE WATCH FOR APPROACHING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO SHORE AND AWAY FROM THE WATER IF LIGHTNING IS SEEN...THUNDER IS HEARD OR WINDS BEGIN INCREASING.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:40 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
TXZ036-039-040-312345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 540 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR COMAL...GUADALUPE ...GONZALES...AND KARNES COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...INCLUDING THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES. AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM EAST OF AUSTIN TO COLLEGE STATION TO NEAR PALACIOS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING TOWARD SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS... AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN }THE EVENT WARNINGS ARE REQUIRED.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:45 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
TXZ036-037-312359- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 545 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON... HAYS AND ALL COUNTIES TO THE EAST...UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY EVENING... JUST BEFORE 6 PM...RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS...BETWEEN COLLEGE STATION AND LA GRANGE EASTWARD TO THE COAST. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN BASTROP AND LA GRANGE...ALSO AROUND COLUMBUS. OTHER INTENSE STORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF COLLEGE STATION NEAR BRENHAM AND ON THE WEST SIDE OF HOUSTON. ALL WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST AT NEAR 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS NOW ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER ARE MOVING INTO A DRASTIC THERMAL CONTRAST AND COULD PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT WIND GUSTS AS THEY MOVE INTO AND WILL LIKELY DIE-OUT OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AFTER DARK.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 6:34 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
TXZ036-039-040-010030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 630 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING COMAL...GUADALUPE...GONZALES...AND KARNES COUNTIES... AT 630 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM NEAR AUSTIN TO NEAR PALACIOS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WERE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF WAELDER IN GONZALES COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO GONZALES COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE EVENT WARNINGS ARE REQUIRED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burleson | 46 min |
| Aug 31, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Jackson | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.