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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 20, 1993Travis County, Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 20, 1993, 12:07 AM CDT for Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 20, 1993, 12:07 AM CDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 20, 1993, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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 42 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 COUNTY

Local storm report, Oct 19, 9:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 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 COUNTY

Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 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 51 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, 11:28 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, 12:16 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.