Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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.
- 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
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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 90 min |
| May 5, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 90 min |
| May 5, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Jackson | 58 min |
| May 5, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 3 hr |
| May 5, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| May 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 56 min |
| May 5, 2:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 4 hr |
| May 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 60 min |
| May 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 59 min |
| May 5, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 68 min |
| May 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Victoria | 2 hr |
| May 5, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | La Salle | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.