Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1994, 8:39 AM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1994, 8:39 AM CDT (13:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1994, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kinney County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 271342 SVRSAT TXC271-271445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 839 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...KINNEY COUNTY AT 835 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRACKETTVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE< ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
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, 4:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ156-171-172-173-192-271015- 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, 4:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
TXZ156-171-172-173-192-271015- 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 53 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
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 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
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:35 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-190-192-271545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 837 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994 ...AN AREA OF RAIN WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST INTO HILL COUNTRY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 830 AM CDT RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM RICHLAND SPRINGS AND SAN SABA DOWN TO HARPER AND JUNCTION. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN MASON COUNTY...NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE LLANO RIVER. ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BOATERS ON LAKES IN THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THEIR LOCATION. DUE TO THE FAIRLY RAPID MOVEMENT...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. WITHROW
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:37 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-190-192-271545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 837 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994 ...AN AREA OF RAIN WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST INTO HILL COUNTRY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 830 AM CDT RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM RICHLAND SPRINGS AND SAN SABA DOWN TO HARPER AND JUNCTION. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN MASON COUNTY...NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE LLANO RIVER. ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BOATERS ON LAKES IN THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THEIR LOCATION. DUE TO THE FAIRLY RAPID MOVEMENT...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. WITHROW
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, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.