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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 26, 1994San Saba County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1994, 3:11 PM CDT for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1994, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
49 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 12:00Z, 8.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 253 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
253 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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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, May 26, 2:13 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ142-155-156-171-172-173-174-262115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
213 PM CDT THU MAY 26 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM
CDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LAMPASAS...MILLS...SAN
SABA...BURNET...MILAM...LLANO AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT.

AT 205 PM...LIGHT SHOWERS WERE FROM LAREDO TO HOUSTON WITH LITTLE
MOVEMENT. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS EAST OF SAN ANGELO AND SOUTH OF
ABILENE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE..HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF
YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA YOU SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR YOUR WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND ACT IMMEDIATELY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.

TSCHIRHART
Special weather statement, May 26, 2:13 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ142-155-156-171-172-173-174-262115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
213 PM CDT THU MAY 26 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM
CDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LAMPASAS...MILLS...SAN
SABA...BURNET...MILAM...LLANO AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT.

AT 205 PM...LIGHT SHOWERS WERE FROM LAREDO TO HOUSTON WITH LITTLE
MOVEMENT. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS EAST OF SAN ANGELO AND SOUTH OF
ABILENE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE..HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF
YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA YOU SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR YOUR WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND ACT IMMEDIATELY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.

TSCHIRHART

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMills63 min
May 26, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXLampasas, San Saba61 min
May 26, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLampasas61 min
May 26, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBurnet, Lampasas47 min
May 26, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXLlano, San Saba58 min
May 26, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano39 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.