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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 23, 1994Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1994, 8:19 PM CDT for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1994, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Medina County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -234 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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, Jun 23, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

TXZ156-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-240030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
634 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND
PART OF SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 629 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY WEST OF A LINE KILLEEN
TO AUSTIN TO WEST OF SAN MARCOS.  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH AUSTIN AREA AND WILL
PRODUCE DAGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL
HAIL.

PEOPLE IN LAMPASAS...LLANO...BLANCO...WILLIAMSON...HAYS AND BURNET
COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH.
PEEK

WWCN11CWXE.

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

TXZ156-171-172-188-190-173-192-191-240030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
634 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND
PART OF SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 629 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY WEST OF A LINE KILLEEN
TO AUSTIN TO WEST OF SAN MARCOS.  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH AUSTIN AREA AND WILL
PRODUCE DAGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL
HAIL.

PEOPLE IN LAMPASAS...LLANO...BLANCO...WILLIAMSON...HAYS AND BURNET
COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH.
PEEK

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Medina	62 min
Jun 23, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	62 min
Jun 23, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	66 min
Jun 23, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	33 min
Jun 23, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit	58 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.