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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 5, 1993Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 2:11 PM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1993, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1993, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
34 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 12:00Z, 7.2 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 12:00Z on 1993-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1993-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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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, May 5, 9:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ034-035-036-037-051515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
919 AM CDT WED MAY 5 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 4 PM FOR TRAVIS ...
HAYS...CALDWELL...BASTROP...LEE...BURLESON...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES...

AT 915 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTH
TEXAS.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SAN MARCOS AND LULING
TO FLATONIA AND ROSANKY...AND FROM ROSANKY TO COLLEGE STATION.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HAIL...DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS.  PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS...EPSECIALLY IN
AREAS EAST AND SOUTH OF AUSTIN SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING BE ISSUED.
HOHMANN
Special weather statement, May 5, 9:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ034-035-036-037-051515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
919 AM CDT WED MAY 5 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 4 PM FOR TRAVIS ...
HAYS...CALDWELL...BASTROP...LEE...BURLESON...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES...

AT 915 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTH
TEXAS.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SAN MARCOS AND LULING
TO FLATONIA AND ROSANKY...AND FROM ROSANKY TO COLLEGE STATION.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HAIL...DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS.  PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS...EPSECIALLY IN
AREAS EAST AND SOUTH OF $AUSTIN SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING BE ISSUED.
HOHMANN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 5:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXZavala90 min
May 5, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXZavala90 min
May 5, 7:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXJackson58 min
May 5, 11:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop3 hr
May 5, 11:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Guadalupe3 hr
May 5, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera56 min
May 5, 2:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal4 hr
May 5, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Uvalde60 min
May 5, 3:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Medina3 hr
May 5, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria63 min
May 5, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar59 min
May 5, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVictoria68 min
May 5, 5:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVictoria2 hr
May 5, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLa Salle67 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.