Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1994, 4:54 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1994, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 2224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 23, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ187-184-189-186-202-204-185-203-183-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 352 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EDWARDS AND REAL COUNTIES... AT 345 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY FROM LEAKEY TO ROCKSPRINGS AND NORTH OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THEIR SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT AND WILL BEGIN TO AFFEECT KINNEY...UVALDE...BANDERA AND KERR COUNTIES BY 5 PM. PERSONS CAMPING NEAR RIVER AND STREAMS IN THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BECAUSE THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPA EOF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS CAUSING RIVERS AND STREAMS TO FLOOD QUICKLY. LOW-WATER CROSSINGS ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED NEVER TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. KEEP UP WITH LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LUNA
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ187-184-189-186-202-204-185-203-183-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 352 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EDWARDS AND REAL COUNTIES... AT 345 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY FROM LEAKEY TO ROCKSPRINGS AND NORTH OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THEIR SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT AND WILL BEGIN TO AFFEECT KINNEY...UVALDE...BANDERA AND KERR COUNTIES BY 5 PM. PERSONS CAMPING NEAR RIVER AND STREAMS IN THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BECAUSE THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPA EOF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS CAUSING RIVERS AND STREAMS TO FLOOD QUICKLY. LOW-WATER CROSSINGS ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED NEVER TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. KEEP UP WITH LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LUNA
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:01 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
TXZ171-172-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 401 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 357 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHEAST OF LLANO...OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF KINGSLAND. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD PASS WEST OF KINGSLAND. GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS S2TORM IN SOUTHEAST LLANO COUNTY. PEEK
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:01 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
TXZ171-172-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 401 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 357 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHEAST OF LLANO...OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF KINGSLAND. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD PASS WEST OF KINGSLAND. GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM IN SOUTHEAST LLANO COUNTY. PEEK
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:39 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ171-188-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 439 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 434 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHWEST OF LLANO TO JUST NORTH OF FREDRICKSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. PEEK
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:39 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ171-188-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 439 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 434 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHWEST OF LLANO TO JUST NORTH OF FREDRICKSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. PEEK WOUS01KAWN .
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr, Real | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 29 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.