Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 1993, 11:25 PM CDT for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 1993, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1993, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Saba County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 140425 TORAUS TXC411-140515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1125 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SAN SABA COUNTY AT 1125 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF SAN SABA. MOVING TOWARD THE CITY OF SAN SABA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS... BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
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
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 6:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ030-034-035-036-140015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 615 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR MILLS AND SAN SABA COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS ALONG AND WEST OF I-35... AT 6 PM THERE WAS NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN CENTRAL TEXAS. HOWEVER, AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF KERRVILLE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO GILLESPIE AND BLANCO COUNTIES BY 8 PM. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE NIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS. TORRENTIAL RAIN WITH AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE...CAUSING FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SL
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 6:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ030-034-035-036-140015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 615 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR MILLS AND SAN SABA COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS ALONG AND WEST OF I-35... AT 6 PM THERE WAS NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN CENTRAL TEXAS. HOWEVER, AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF KERRVILLE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO GILLESPIE AND BLANCO COUNTIES BY 8 PM. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE NIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS. TORRENTIAL RAIN WITH AMOUNTS OF 2 INC4HES PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE...CAUSING FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SL
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 7:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano, San Saba | 47 min |
| Sep 13, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | San Saba | 36 min |
| Sep 13, 10:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 52 min |
| Sep 13, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 60 min |
| Sep 13, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 48 min |
| Sep 13, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet | 63 min |
| Sep 14, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 42 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.