Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 19, 1993, 11:28 PM CDT for Hays County, Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 1993, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 1993, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hays County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 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, 2 hours 3 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, 2 hours 3 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 COUNTYSpecial weather statement, Oct 19, 10:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TXZ183-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1016 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TONIGHT... ...TORNADO WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED... AT 1010 PM CDT...NO PRECIPITATION REMAINED IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. ALL OF THE ACTIVITY HAD MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. ONE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN THE CITY OF DEL RIO...WHICH OCCURED AROUND 820 PM CDT. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND INJURIES WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...BASEBALL SIZED HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS ACROSS THE CITY. THE TORNADO WAS FIRST REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF DEL RIO NEAR HIGHWAY 277. IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADO TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED ALONG QUALLIA LANE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST AND CROSSED OVER US HIGHWAY 90...AND MOVED PASSED THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT ON HAMILTON LANE. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AND INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN THE VAL VERDE PARK ESTATES AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ183-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1016 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TONIGHT... ...TORNADO WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED... AT 1010 PM CDT...NO PRECIPITATION REMAINED IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. ALL OF THE ACTIVITY HAD MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. ONE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN THE CITY OF DEL RIO...WHICH OCCURED AROUND 820 PM CDT. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND INJURIES WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...BASEBALL SIZED HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS ACROSS THE CITY. THE TORNADO WAS FIRST REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF DEL RIO NEAR HIGHWAY 277. IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADO TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED ALONG QUALLIA LANE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST AND CROSSED OVER US HIGHWAY 90...AND MOVED PASSED THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT ON HAMILTON LANE. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AND INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN THE VAL VERDE PARK ESTATES AREA.
The 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, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 50 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, 11:52 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 |
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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.