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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 27, 1994Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1994, 8:10 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1994, 8:10 AM CDT (13:10 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1994, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Val Verde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 2387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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 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 27, 3:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 3:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 4:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 4:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
414 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 410 AM...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM JUST EAST OF LAMPASAS
TO NORTH OF BURNET TO LAKE BUCHANAN AND OVER TO LLANO.  MOVEMENT
WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH
THE CITY OF BURNET AROUND 425 AM.

PEOPLE IN BURNET..LLANO AND LAMPASAS COUNTIES WILL EXPERIENCE HEAVY
RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WIND AS THESE STORMS
MOVE THROUGH.
PEEK

Special weather statement, May 27, 4:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
446 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AUSTIN AREA...

AT 442 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM KILLEEN TO LIBERTY HILL TO BETWEEN
MARBLE FALLS AND LAKE TRAVIS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD PASS THROUGH GEORGETOWN AROUND 510 AM.  THE
AUSTIN AREA CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 540 AM AND 600 AM.

PEOPLE IN WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES SHOULD PREPARE FOR HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  MOTORISTS SHOULD
USE EXTRA CAUTION IN HEAVY RAIN AND WET ROADWAYS.
PEEK

Special weather statement, May 27, 4:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

TXZ173-192-271045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
446 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AUSTIN AREA...

AT 442 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM KILLEEN TO LIBERTY HILL TO BETWEEN
MARBLE FALLS AND LAKE TRAVIS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD PASS THROUGH GEORGETOWN AROUND 510 AM.  THE
AUSTIN AREA CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 540 AM AND 600 AM.

PEOPLE IN WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES SHOULD PREPARE FOR HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  MOTORISTS SHOULD
USE EXTRA CAUTION IN HEAVY RAIN AND WET ROADWAYS.
PEEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	48 min
May 27, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	66 min
May 27, 9:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	57 min
May 27, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde, Zavala	61 min
May 27, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Maverick	68 min
May 27, 10:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Zavala	67 min
May 27, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Zavala	62 min
May 27, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Webb	63 min
May 27, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	La Salle	62 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.