Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 1991, 6:13 PM CST for Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 1991, 6:13 PM CST (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 1991, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 150015 SVRAUS TXC055-150100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 613 PM CST MON JAN 14 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...CALDWELL COUNTY AT 615 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED JUST WEST OF THE LULING AREA MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Jan 14, 5:15 PM CST, 58 minutes before
TXZ036-038>041-150300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 515 PM CST MON JAN 14 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR AN AREA FROM NEAR COLLEGE STATION TO AUSTIN TO HONDO TO TILDEN TO CORPUS CHRISTI AND EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. INCLUDED IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS PORTION OF THE WATCH ARE THE ABOVE CITIES AS WELL AS THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED AS STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS FROM THE GULF HAVE CONTINUED TO BRING VERY WARM AIR AND PLENTY OF MOISTURE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS WARM...MOIST AIR WILL SERVE AS THE FUEL FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS. THE FEATURE THAT WILL CAUSE THE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CURRENTLY LOCATED NEAR IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. IT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEASTWARD TONIGHT IN THE DIRECTION OF SOUTH TEXAS. A COLD FRONT THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT AND INTO SOUTHEAST AND DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TUESDAY MORNING. AS THIS FRONT CROSSES THE AREA...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END. SOUTH CENTRAL TEXANS SHOULD MONITOR A RELIABLE SOURCE OF WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGH THIS EVENING WHILE THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS EXISTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 56 min |
| Jan 14, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 66 min |
| Jan 14, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 63 min |
| Jan 14, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 40 min |
| Jan 14, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 54 min |
| Jan 14, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 51 min |
| Jan 15, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Milam | 60 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.