Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1991, 7:55 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 1991, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1991, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 3709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 140058 SVRAUS TXC149-140200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 755 PM CDT SAT APR 13 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY AT 750 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GIDDINGS MOVING TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WARDA AND LETBETTER ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD IMMEDIATELY TAKE COVER. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED tAREA. 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, Apr 13, 2:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ034>037-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 210 PM CDT SAT APR 13 1991 ...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING WEST OF LAKE TRAVIS... AT 2 PM CDT AUSTIN RADAR INDICATED A THUNDEcRSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY JUST TO THE WEST OF LAKE TRAVIS. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY BECOME SEVERE WITHIN THE HOUR. IF YOU ON LAKE TRAVIS PLEASE MOVE TO SHORE RIGHT AWAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 58 min |
| Apr 13, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette | 69 min |
| Apr 13, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Kendall | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Milam | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 5:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.