Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1991, 4:05 PM CDT for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1991, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1991, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 282104 TORAUS TXC051-282145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 405 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BURLESON COUNTY AT 400 PM RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR CALDWELL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. KBTX-TV REPORTED NUMEROUS FUNNELS NEAR CALDWELL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLA3NKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 28, 1:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ039-282000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 123 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO THE FAR NORTHWEST PORTION OF BEXAR COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS RATE OF SPEED...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WITHIN THE HOUR. STORNG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND MARBLE TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS MEDINA AND BANDERA COUNTIES DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN AND AROUND BEXAR COUNTY AND THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BE ENCOUNTERED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Mills | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 69 min |
| Apr 28, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burleson | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 46 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.