Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 19, 1993, 10:10 PM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 1993, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1213 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 200311 TORSAT TXC385-200400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1010 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...REAL COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST REAL COUNTY AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM PORDUCED A TORNADO IN DEL RIO EARLY THIS EVENING. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING.
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, Oct 19, 9:25 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
925 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993
540 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL OVER LAKE AMISTAD...VAL VERDE COUNTY
833 PM CDT 1 1/4" HAIL..WIND GUST TO 64 MPH AT LAUGHLIN AFB...VAL VERDE
COUNTY
840 PM CDT TORNADO PICKED UP POLICE CAR AND TOSSED IT IN A DITCH...
CITY OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY
858 PM CDT TORNADO ON NORTHEAST SIDE OF DEL RIO DAMAGED A MOBILE HOME
SOME PEOPLE HURT...VAL VERDE COUNTY
920 PM CDT MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR SYCAMORE CREEK...WESTERN KINNEY COUNTYLocal storm report, Oct 19, 9:25 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
925 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993
540 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL OVER LAKE AMISTAD...VAL VERDE COUNTY
833 PM CDT 1 1/4" HAIL..WIND GUST TO 64 MPH AT LAUGHLIN AFB...VAL VERDE
COUNTY
840 PM CDT TORNADO PICKED UP POLICE CAR AND TOSSED IT IN A DITCH...
CITY OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY
858 PM CDT TORNADO ON NORTHEAST SIDE OF DEL RIO DAMAGED A MOBILE HOME
S&OME PEOPLE HURT...VAL VERDE COUNTY
920 PM CDT MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR SYCAMORE CREEK...WESTERN KINNEY COUNTYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 28 min |
| Oct 19, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Oct 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 min |
| Oct 19, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 44 min |
| Oct 19, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 53 min |
| Oct 19, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco | 57 min |
| Oct 19, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet | 49 min |
| Oct 19, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 27 min |
| Oct 19, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 12:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 53 min |
| Oct 20, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 44 min |
| Oct 20, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 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.