Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 20, 1993, 4:18 AM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 1993, 4:18 AM CDT (09:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 1993, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bandera County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1213 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, Oct 20, 3:28 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TEXAS
330 AM CDT WED OCT 20 1993
STORM REPORTS FROM TUE OCT 19 1993
540 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT BOX CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
610 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT ROUGH CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
820 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE HIGHWAY
277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
825 PM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE
HIGHWAY 277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
828 PM CDT TORNADO REPORTED OVERHEAD BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER LISTED
ABOVE. PATROL CAR BLOWN OFF HIGHWAY INTO DITCH. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
832 PM CDT DAMAGE REPORTED IN SE PART OF DEL RIO FROM TORNADO.
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN...SEVERAL ROOFS BLOWN OFF.
BASEBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
833 PM CDT 1 1/4" HAIL AND A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH AT LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
837 PM CDT TORNADO SIGHTED NEAR VAL VERDE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
ON THE EAST SIDE OF DEL RIO. MOBILE HOME COMPLETELY
DESTROYED IN THIS AREA. NO INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
840 PM CDT DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES FROM TORNADO IN VAL VERDE PARKS
ESTATES ON EAST SIDE OF DELJ RIO. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL
ALSO REPORTED IN THIS AREA. 2 MINOR INJURIES REPORTED...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
844 PM CDT ROOF DAMAGE TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.Local storm report, Oct 20, 3:30 AM CDT, 48 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TEXAS
330 AM CDT WED OCT 20 1993
STORM REPORTS FROM TUE OCT 19 1993
540 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT BOX CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
610 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT ROUGH CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
820 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE HIGHWAY
277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
825 PM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE
HIGHWAY 277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
828 PM CDT TORNADO REPORTED OVERHEAD BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER LISTED
ABOVE. PATROL CAR BLOWN OFF HIGHWAY INTO DITCH. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
832 PM CDT DAMAGE REPORTED IN SE PART OF DEL RIO FROM TORNADO.
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN...SEVERAL ROOFS BLOWN OFF.
BASEBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
833 PM CDT 1 1/4" HAIL AND A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH AT LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
837 PM CDT TORNADO SIGHTED NEAR VAL VERDE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
ON THE EAST SIDE OF DEL RIO. MOBILE HOME COMPLETELY
DESTROYED IN THIS AREA. NO INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
840 PM CDT DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES FROM TORNADO IN VAL VERDE PARKS
ESTATES ON EAST SIDE OF DEL RIO. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL
ALSO REPORTED IN THIS AREA. 2 MINOR INJURIES REPORTED...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
844 PM CDT ROOF DAMAGE TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 28 min |
| Oct 19, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Oct 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 min |
| Oct 19, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 44 min |
| Oct 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 53 min |
| Oct 19, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco | 57 min |
| Oct 19, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet | 49 min |
| Oct 19, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 27 min |
| Oct 19, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 12:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 53 min |
| Oct 20, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 44 min |
| Oct 20, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
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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.