Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1991, 8:17 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1991, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1991, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSAT 170120
TORSAT
TXC265-170145-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
817 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...KERR
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED A TORNADO JUST NORTH OF
KERRVILLE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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.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, Jun 16, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 700 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAYETTE COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM... ...THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY STATIONARY OVER WESTERN TRAVIS AND SOUTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... AT 650 PM RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY FROM LAKE TRAVIS TO GEORGETOWN. REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME HAVE BEEN RECIEVED FROM SHERRIFS OFFICES. SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS HAVE BECOME IMPASSIBLE AND WITH THE RAINS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT FLOODING COULD POSE A PROBLEM IN THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND FROM JUNCTION TO GOLDTHWAITE...AUSTIN AND LA GRANGE. MOVEMENT OF THIS RAIN AREA WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. PERSONS ASSOCIATED WITH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY AS THE STORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 700 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAYETTE COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM... ...THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAINS STATIONARY OVER WESTERN TRAVIS AND SOUTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... AT 650 PM RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM LAKE TRAVIS TO GEORGETOWN. REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME HAVE BEEN RECIEVED FROM WILLIAMSON COUNTY SHERRIF OFFICES. SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS HAVE BECOME IMPASSIBLE AND WITH THE RAINS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT FLOODING COULD POSE A PROBLEM IN THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND FROM JUNCTION TO GOLDTHWAITE...AUSTIN AND LA GRANGE. MOVEMENT OF THIS RAIN AREA WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. PERSONS ASSOCIATED WITH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER )CONDITIONS AND TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY AS THE STORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
TXZ054-170115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 613 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991 AT 605 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST VAL VERDE COUNTY NEAR LOMA ALTA. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM LOMA ALTA TO SONORA TO ROCK SPRINGS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE ALONG THE WESTERN VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE BETWEEN DRYDEN AND OZONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST NORTHEAST OF ROCKSPRINGS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS TRAVELING NORTH OUT OF DEL RIO ALONG HIGHWAYS 277N AND 377N S9HOULD BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND BE ALERT FOR FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:19 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ054-170115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 713 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991 AT 705 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST VAL VERDE COUNTY NEAR LOMA ALTA. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM LOMA ALTA TO SONORA TO ROCK SPRINGS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE ALONG THE WESTERN VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE BETWEEN DRYDEN AND OZONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST NORTHEAST OF ROCKSPRINGS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS TRAVELING NORTH OUT OF DEL RIO ALONG GHIGHWAYS 277N AND 377N SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND BE ALERT FOR FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:49 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
TXZ034>035-038>039-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 750 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING HIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. TWO SEPARATE WEATHER SYSTEMS APPEARED TO BE AT WORK IN PRODUCING THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. OVER THE HILL COUNTRY...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME WESTERN KERR COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. MEANWHILE...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR FREDERICKSBURG SOUTHEAST ACROSS GONZALES COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS LINE APPEARED TO BE STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WIND. ALONG WITH THE WIND...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED. A MERGING OF THESE TWO SYSTEMS SOMEWHERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS COULD HAPPEN IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THE RESULT COULD BE A BRIEF INTENSIFICATION OF THE STORMS AND A BURST OF SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 8:15 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-170300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
815 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1991
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAYETTE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS STATIONARY OVER TRAVIS...HAYS
AND SOUTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES...
AT 810 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM DRIPPING
SPRINGS TO AUSTIN AND GEORGETOWN. NUNEROUS REPORTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES OF
RAIN PER HOUR HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE WEST SIDE OF AUSTIN NORTH
TO ROUND ROCK. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
SOME STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE SPICEWOOD SPRINGS AREA AND
NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF JESTER AND FM 2222. SOME EARLY RAINFALL REPORTS
ARE /1.32 IN ONE HOUR AT GREAT HILLS/ LOOP 620 AND 183 1.5 IN ONE HOUR/
1 INCH AT ZILKER SCHOOL IN 16 MINUTE/. PERSONS NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS
ARE ADIVED TO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE PREPARED
TO MOVE AT A MONEMENTS NOTICE.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.
STAY TUNE FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Jackson | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Jackson | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes 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.