Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 1993, 1:17 AM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 1993, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 1993, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Sep 12, 7:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ039-130100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 720 PM CDT SUN SEP 13 1993 WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO AND MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS SAN ANTONIO THIS EVENING. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR HELOTES...WHILE OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF SAN ANTONIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF BLINDING RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS DURING THE NEXT HOUR IN AND AROUND BEXAR COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 12:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ034-035-130715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1205 AM CDT MON SEP 13 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY... AT MIDNIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED ACROSS GILLESPIE... BLANCO...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WERE FROM KERRVILLE TO FREDERICKSBURG AND TO WEST OF JOHNSON CITY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. UP TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER PARTS OF KERR COUNTY AS THESE STORMS MOVED ACROSS KERRVILLE. PERSONS IN GILLESPIE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES OF THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE POSSIBILTY OF HEAVY RAINS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. MOTORIST ARE ADVISED TO SLOW DOWN AND WATCH FOR FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSING. NEVER ATTEMPT CROSSING FLOODED ROADWAYS AS YOU COULD BE SWEPT DOWNSTREAM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS SHOULD CONDITIONS WARRANT. HOHMANN
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 12:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ034-035-130715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1205 AM CDT MON SEP 13 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY... AT MIDNIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED ACROSS GILLESPIE... BLANCO...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WERE FROM KERRVILLE TO FREDERICKSBURG AND TO WEST OF JOHNSON CITY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. UP TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER PARTS OF KERR COUNTY AS THESE STORMS MOVED ACROSS KERRVILLE. PERSONS IN GILLESPIE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES OF THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE POSSIBILTY OF HEAVY RAINS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. MOTORIST ARE ADVISED TO SLOW DOWN AND WATCH FOR FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSING. NEVER ATTEMPT CROSSING FLOODED ROADWAYS AS YOU COULD BE SWEPT DOWNSTREAM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS SHOULD: CONDITIONS WARRANT. HOHMANN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 118 min |
| Sep 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
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.