Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1991, 5:13 AM CDT for Milam County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1991, 5:13 AM CDT (10:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1991, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Milam County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 141015 SVRAUS TXC331-141115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 513 AM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...MILAM COUNTY AT 510 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE BELL MILAM COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS NEAR RODGERS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE AFFECTING THE CITY OF CAMERON IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 14, 2:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ034>030-140900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 220 AM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 ...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 210 AM CDT AUSTIN RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY FROM KERVILLE WEST TO UVALDE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STRONG AND COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. THESE STORMS COULD MOVE INTO GILLESPIE AND BLANCO COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. STAY IN TOUCH OF RAPVIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RVL
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 3:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ030>037-141000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 0320 AM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TEXAS...AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES BURLESON...GILLESPIE...WILLIAMSON...BURNET...LEE...TRAVIS...BLANCO CALDWELL...FAYETTE...BASTROP...HAYS...LLANO AND MILAM... ...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 315 AM CDT AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM BURNET AND BLANCO DOWN SOUTHWEST BEYOND HONDO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN VERY STRONG AND SOME HAVE PRODUCED HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE INCREASING IN INTENSITY BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM CDT. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS THAT WILL BE ISSUED...TUNE TO LOCAL TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. WITHROW
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, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 65 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, 5:38 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
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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.