Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1993, 4:56 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1993, 4:56 PM CST (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1993, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDRT 292257 TORDRT TXC465-300000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 456 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE. AT 455 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 30 MILES NORTH NORTH WEST OF DEL RIO NEAR THE CITY OF COMSTOCK. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN THE CENTER OF YOUR HOME AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT BUT WATCH O@UT FOR FLASH FLOODING. ...REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CST...
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 29, 1:27 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...FINAL ASSESSMENT ON DAMAGE AND INJURIES...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
130 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993
THE EVENT ON THE EVENING OF MARCH 25 HIT PARTS OF THE WEST...NORTH
AND NORTHEAST SIDES OF AUSTIN DOING AN ESTIMATED 55 TO 75 MILLION
DOLLARS IN DAMAGE TO CARS...ROOFS...SKYLIGHT...GREENHOUSES AND VEGETATION.
THIS WAS THE WORST AND COSTLIEST HAILSTORM TO HIT AUSTIN IN HISTORY...
OUR SECOND COSTLIEST OCCURED ON OCTOBER 21, 1984. DOING 50 MIILION IN
IN DAMAGES. THE AUSTIN EMS REPORTED 60 INJURIES DUE TO THE HAILSTORM
AS PERSONS SCRAMBLED TO PROTECT THE VEHICLES AND OTHER VALUABLES.
TIME COUNTY EVENT OF MAR 25 1993 EVENING...
520 PM TRAVIS QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN MANCHACA(KVUE-24
WEATHER WATCHER)
525 PM TRAVIS 3/4 INCH HAIL JUST SOUTHEAST OF MANCHACA.(SHERIFF
OFFICE)
530 PM HAYS 3/4 INCH HAIL JUST NORTHEAST OF DRIPPING SPRINGS
REPORTED BY OBSERVER.
532 PM TRAVIS 3/4 INCH HAIL 51ST AND INTERSTATE 35 REPORTED BY HAMMS.
RADIO STATION.
537 PM TRAVIS GOLFBALL SIZE AIRPORT AND LAMAR. (HAMMS)
538 PM TRAVIS 11/2 INCH SIZE HAIL AT CAMERON AND 183 DENTS ON
CARS. (OFFICE EMPLOYEE)
539 PM TRAVIS 3/4 TO 1 INCH SIZE HAIL INTERSTATE 35 AND RUNDBURG.
(HAMMS)
540 PM TRAVIS 1 TO 11/4 INCH HAIL JUST NORTH OF CAMERON AND 183
REPORTED BY HAMMS
555 PM TRAVIS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT THE EXPOSITION CENTER ABOUT 6 MILES
EAST OF AUSTIN. SITE OF THE 1993 RODEO. (KVUE-24)
600 PM TRAVIS 3/4 TO 2 INCH SIZE HAIL AT WEBBERVILLE WHICH IS 11 MILES
EAST OF AUSTIN. (OFFICIAL WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVER)
600 PM LLANO 3/4 ICH HAIL AT OXFORD SHERIFFS OFFICE IN LLANO
608 PM LLANO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT KINGSLAND BY SHERIFFS OFFICE
610 PM BASTROP 11/4 INCH HAIL AT UTLEY( WX. OBSERVER)
625 PM TRAVIS NICKEL TO SLIGHTLY LARGER SIZE HAIL 360 AND 2222
STRIPPED TREES. (KXAN-36 STORMTRACKER)
630 PM TRAVIS 1 TO 2 INCH SIZE HAIL AT STECK AND MOPAC WHERE HAIL
DID CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE TO CARS BUSTED SOME
WINDSHIELDS AND HAIL COVERED THE GROUND IN PLACES UP TO
THREE INCHES DEEP. LOOKED LIKE SNOW. DAMAGE AT THIS
POINT ESTIMATED IN THE MILLIONS. (KVUE-24 STUDIOS)
710 PM BASTROP 1 INCH SIZE HAIL HALF WAY BETWEEN ELGIN AND BASTROP
(OBSERVER)
711 PM BURNET 1 TO 11/2 INCH SIZE HAIL AT MARBLE FALLS (KXAN-36
STORMTRACKER)
715 PM BASTROP JUST SOUTH OF ELGIN 1 INCH SIZE HAIL(ELGIN POLICE)
718 PM LLANO 6 MILES SOUTH OF LLANO NICKEL SIZE HAIL.(LLANO SHERIFFS
OFFICE)
755 PM LEE GIDDINGS HAD 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH SIZE HAIL (KXAN-36
STObRMTRACKER)
LUNASpecial weather statement, Mar 29, 2:12 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ054-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 212 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN VAL VERDE COUNTY... AT 205 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO NEAR LANGTRY. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD BE ON THE WATCH FOR APPROACHING WEATHER AND MOVE QUICKLY TO SHORE AND AWAY FROM THE WATER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. ...STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 4:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 29, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 62 min |
| Mar 29, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 43 min |
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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.