Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1994, 5:45 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1994, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 232245 SVRAUS TXC171-232330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 545 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY AT 543 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF FREDRICKSBURG...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS LARGE HAIL IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING OR CAR. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR NEAR METAL OBJECTS.
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, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 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, 1 hour 6 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, 1 hour 6 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 .
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:31 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-173-192-191-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 531 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS... AT 528 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF SAN SABA...WEST OF FREDRICKSBURG...BETWEEN DRIPPING SPRINGS AND SAN MARCOS AND NEAR GEORGETOWN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SAN SABA...SOUTHERN BURNET...GILLESPIE...WILLIAMSON AND HAYS COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. PEEK WWUS35KCHS .
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-173-192-191-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 531 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS... AT 528 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF SAN SABA...WEST OF FREDRICKSBURG...BETWEEN DRIPPING SPRINGS AND SAN MARCOS AND NEAR GEORGETOWN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SAN SABA...SOUTHERN BURNET...GILLESPIE...WILLIAMSON AND HAYS COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. PEEK
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:42 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
TXZ155-171-172-188-173-192-191-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 531 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS... AT 528 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF SAN SABA...WEST OF FREDRICKSBURG...BETWEEN DRIPPING SPRINGS AND SAN MARCOS AND NEAR GEORGETOWN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SAN SABA...SOUTHERN BURNET...GILLESPIE...WILLIAMSON AND HAYS COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. PEEK
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, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 66 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, 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
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.