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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 9, 1993Karnes County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1993, 10:14 PM CDT for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1993, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1993, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Karnes County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 9, 6:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

TXZ034-035-039-100300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
645 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 800 PM TONIGHT FOR EASTERN
PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TIL 8 PM TONIGHT FOR KENDALL AND COMAL
COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY...KERR AND BANDERA COUNTIES HAVE BEEN
REMOVED FROM THE TORNADO WATCH.  THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS NOT INCLUDED
IN THE WATCH.

AT 640 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM BLANCO TO AUSTIN AND 10 MILES EAST
OF LOCKHART.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING
FROM NEAR BOERNE NORTHEAST TO NEAR CAMERON AND FROM FLORESVILLE TO BASTROP
TO LEXINGTON.  MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
15 MILES AN HOUR.

HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.  PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER OR RISING
WATER BE OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

THE COLD FRONT TRIGGERING THE THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING THROUGH THE HILL
COUNTRY AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING EAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
TONIGHT AND INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS MONDAY MORNING.  THUNDERSTORMS...SOME
SEVERE WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND...ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.  DRIER AIR MOVING IN
BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BRING AN END TO THE THUNDERSTORMS.

PERSONS IN THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...ESPCEIALLY THOSE WITHIN
THE WATCH AREA...SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER.  STAY TUNED TO
YOUR LOCAL RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.

Special weather statement, May 9, 6:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

TXZ034-035-039-100300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
645 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 800 PM TONIGHT FOR EASTERN
PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TIL 8 PM TONIGHT FOR KENDALL AND COMAL
COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY...KERR AND BANDERA COUNTIES HAVE BEEN
REMOVED FROM THE TORNADO WATCH.  THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS NOT INCLUDED
IN THE WATCH.

AT 640 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM BLANCO TO AUSTIN AND 10 MILES EAST
OF LOCKHART.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING
FROM NEAR BOERNE NORTHEAST TO NEAR CAMERON AND FROM FLORESVILLE TO BASTROP
TO LEXINGTON.  MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
15 MILES AN HOUR.

HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.  PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER OR RISING
WATER BE OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

THE COLD FRONT TRIGGERING THE THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING THROUGH THE HILL
COUNTRY AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING EAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
TONIGHT AND INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS MONDAY MORNING.  THUNDERSTORMS...SOME
SEVERE WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND...ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.  DRIER AIR MOVING IN
BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BRING AN END TO THE THUNDERSTORMS.

PERSONS IN THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...ESPCEIALLY THOSE WITHIN
THE WATCH AREA...SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR TtHE WEATHER.  STAY TUNED TO
YOUR LOCAL RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.

Local storm report, May 9, 8:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 8:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 9:43 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
943 PM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

FOR MAY 9TH...

     TIME                        EVENT
   730 PM CDT    3/4-INCH HAIL AT SATTLER IN NORTHEAST COMAL COUNTY.
                   BETWEEN HONDO AND CASTROVILLE IN MEDINA COUNTY.

   745 PM CDT    PILOT REPORT RELAYED TO SAN ANGELO FLIGHT SERVICE
                   STATION...TWO TORNADOES SEEN...ONE BETWEEN SAN
                   MARCOS AND NEW BRAUNFELS NEAR COMAL/GUADALUPE
                   COUNTY LINE AND ONE OVER THE CANYON LAKE AREA
                   IN NORTHERN COMAL COUNTY.

   900 PM CDT    GONZALES COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3/4" HAIL IN TOWN
                   OF GONZALES

Local storm report, May 9, 9:45 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
943 PM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

FOR MAY 9TH...

     TIME                        EVENT
   730 PM CDT    3/4-INCH HAIL AT SATTLER IN NORTHEAST COMAL COUNTY.
                   BETWEEN HONDO AND CASTROVILLE IN MEDINA COUNTY.

   745 PM CDT    PILOT REPORT RELAYED TO SAN ANGELO FLIGHT SERVICE
                   STATION...TWO TORNADOES SEEN...ONE BETWEEN SAN
                   MARCOS AND NEW BRAUNFELS FNEAR COMAL/GUADALUPE
                   COUNTY LINE AND ONE OVER THE CANYON LAKE AREA
                   IN NORTHERN COMAL COUNTY.

   900 PM CDT    GONZALES COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3/4" HAIL IN TOWN
                   OF GONZALES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Comal	43 min
May 9, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	67 min
May 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell	57 min
May 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	62 min
May 9, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	66 min
May 9, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	67 min
May 9, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	60 min
May 9, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt	40 min
May 9, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	65 min
May 10, 12:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Webb	58 min
May 10, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Jackson	62 min
May 10, 1:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Webb	6 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.