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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 13, 1993Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1993, 1:55 AM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 1993, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 1993, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bexar County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3364 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3364 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.5
Supercell composite
13.9

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The text

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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, Oct 12, 11:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
TXZ142-155-156-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-193-208-194-209-130515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1112 PM CDT TUE OCT 12 1993

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TIL 2 AM...

AT 1110 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON
CITY...15 MILES WEST OF RICHLAND SPRINGS...AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
PRIDDY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.

PERSONS THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION AS CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.
HOHMANN
Special weather statement, Oct 12, 11:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ142-155-156-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-193-208-194-209-130515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1112 PM CDT TUE OCT 12 1993

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TIL 2 AM...

AT 1110 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON
CITY...15 MILES WEST OF RICHLAND SPRINGS...AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
PRIDDY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.

PERSONS THR4OUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION AS CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.
HOHMANN
Special weather statement, Oct 13, 1:45 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie55 min
Oct 12, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGoliad, Victoria63 min
Oct 12, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales67 min
Oct 12, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXGillespie59 min
Oct 12, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr67 min
Oct 12, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar79 min
Oct 12, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria48 min
Oct 12, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKendall57 min
Oct 12, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria61 min
Oct 13, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa, Bexar117 min
Oct 13, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall56 min
Oct 13, 12:15 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXLlano60 min
Oct 13, 12:21 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXLampasas34 min
Oct 13, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco46 min
Oct 13, 2:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXSan Saba41 min
Oct 13, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Llano46 min
Oct 13, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco53 min
Oct 13, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal64 min
Oct 13, 4:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco26 min
Oct 13, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal, Kendall58 min
Oct 13, 5:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLee44 min
Oct 13, 5:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar60 min
Oct 13, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKarnes, Wilson65 min
Oct 13, 7:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa47 min
Oct 13, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde55 min

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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.