Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1990, 9:41 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1990, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1990, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kinney 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 2382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSAT 260242
TORSAT
TXC271-260345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
941 PM CDT WED APR 25 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...KINNEY
THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED AN UNOFFICIAL REPORT OF A TORNADO
FROM THE PUBLIC JUST WEST OF THE KINNEY COUNTY LINE IN VAL VERDE
COUNTY. THE STORM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS REPORT HAS ALREADY PRODUCED
HAIL UP TO 1 1/2 INCHES IN DIAMETER JUST BEFORE 900 PM THIS EVENING
AND WINDS OVER 100 MPH NEAR DEL RIO WITHIN THE PAST 10 MINUTES. THIS
STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. PERSONS IN AND NEAR ITS
PATH SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. IT IS CURRENTLY LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF THE
CITY OF BRACKETTVILLE AND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A
CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Apr 25, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 6:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Mills | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Mills | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Victoria | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Victoria | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.