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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 15, 1994Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Live Oak County, TX

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 severe thunderstorm 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, Apr 15, 5:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ224-225-233-234-152300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
500 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR DEWITT AND LAVACA
   COUNTIES UNTIL 7 PM CDT...

AT 455 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...
SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF HOUSTON TO HALLETTSVILLE
TO GONZALES.  IN NORTHERN LAVACA COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN
WERE OCCURRING BETWEEN SHINER AND HALLETTSVILLE.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AS THE ENTIRE AREA IS DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD.

PERSONS IN LAVACA AND DEWITT COUNTIES CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WITH THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR LOCAL RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

06
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 5:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ224-225-233-234-247-160000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
555 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...TORNADAO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR DEWITT...LAVACA...GOLIAD...VICTORIA
AND CALHOUN COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT...

AT 550 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...
SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDING FROM HOUSTON TO HALLETTSVILLE
TO YORKTOWN.  ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
SAN ANTONIO TO SAN MARCOS.  IN NORTHERN LAVACA COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS
LOCATED BETWEEN HALLETTSVILLE AND SHULENBURG.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE AREA
IS DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN VICTORIA AND SURROUNDING
COUNTIES...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIOV...TV OR LOCAL RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

06
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ231-232-240-241-244-245-246-160015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
618 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BEE..LIVE OAK...DUVAL...JIM
WELLS...SAN PATRICIO...REFUGIO AND ARANSAS COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 610 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF EAGLE PASS TO NORTHWEST OF VICTORIA.
THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15
MILES AN HOUR. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT
20 MILES AN HOUR.

THERE CURRENTLY IS NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE COASTAL BEND...BUT
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND
TORNADOS THIS EVENING.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT IS MOVING
THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND
MOVE OFFSORE LATE TONIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCAIL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 7:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ224-225-233-234-247-160110-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
705 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR DEWITT...LAVACA...GOLIAD...VICTORIA
AND CALHOUN COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT...

AT 700 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM LAGRANGE TO GONZALES TO FALLS CITY.
ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM HOUSTON TO BAY CITY.
IN NORTHERN LAVACA COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...
DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS OCCURRING JUST SOUTH OF
SHULENBURG.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE AREA
IS DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN VICTORIA AND SURROUNDING
COUNTIES...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR LOCAL RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS A"ND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

06
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 7:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TXZ231-232-240-241-244-245-246-160130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
726 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BEE...LIVE OAK...DUVAL...JIM
WELLS...SAN PATRICIO...REFUGIO AND ARANSAS COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 720 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF LAREDO TO NORTHWEST OF VICTORIA.
THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR WHILE THE AREA DEVELOPED TO THE SOUTH.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A FRONT THAT CONTINUED TO MOVE
THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXASS THIS EVENING.

THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE NORTHERN
SECTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. RESIDENTS IN THE
WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBLITIY OF SEVERE WEATEHR AND
TORNADOS THROUGH THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 8:28 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ231-232-240-241-244-245-246-160230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
829 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BEE...LIVE OAK...DUVAL...JIM
WELLS...SAN PATRICIO...REFUGIO AND ARANSAS COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 820 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LAREDO TO BEEVILLE TO NORTH OF
REFUGIO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST OF GEORGE
WEST. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
20 MILES AND HOUR.

RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS THIS EVENING. THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPBee69 min
Apr 15, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval68 min
Apr 15, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPSan Patricio62 min
Apr 15, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPNueces62 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.