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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 13, 1993Comal County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1993, 3:56 AM CDT for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 1993, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 1993, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Comal County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 13, 2:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 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, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar65 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, 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

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.