Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Victoria County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, Aug 16, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
TXZ194-174-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 551 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 547 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF ROCKDALE... OR JUST NORTHEAST OF THORNDALE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS IN SOUTHERN MILAM AND NORTHERN LEE COUNTIES. PEEK
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 5:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ194-174-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 551 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 547 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF ROCKDALE... OR JUST NORTHEAST OF THORNDALE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS IN SOUTHERN MILAM AND NORTHERN LEE COUNTIES. PEEK ~
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
TXZ183>187-189-202>207-217>223-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 609 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 1994 AT 605 PM CDT...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR AT NEW BRAUNFELS INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GONZALES AREA AND JUST TO THE EAST OF SAN ANTONIO. SPOTTY AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED IN AND AROUND GONZALES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. A SECOND AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM HONDO TO UVALDE TO ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY AND BACK TO HONDO. HEAVY RAIN WAS INDICATED FROM WEST OF HONDO TO JUST NORTH OF UVALDE. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY EXITS FOR THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
TXZ183>187-189-202>207-217>223-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 609 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 1994 AT 605 PM CDT...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR AT NEW BRAUNFELS INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GONZALES AREA AND JUST TO THE EAST OF SAN ANTONIO. SPOTTY AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED IN AND AROUND GONZALES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. A SECOND AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM HONDO TO UVALDE TO ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY AND BACK TO HONDO. HEAVY RAIN WAS INDICATED FROM WEST OF HONDO TO JUST NORTH OF UVALDE. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY EXITS FOR THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
TXZ171-173-194-174-170030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 622 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS... ...AT 615 PM CDT THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WILLIAMSON, MILAM, LLANO, AND LEE COUNTIES. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS, PARTICULARLY ONE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUTTO, WERE PRODUCING STRONG, GUSTY WINDS, VERY HEAVY RAIN, SMALL HAIL, AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MOST OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID CROSSING LOW SPOTS IN THE ROAD IF THEY CONTAIN RUNNING WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WALSH
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 7:30 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ221>223-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 730 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 1994 AT 725 PM CDT...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR AT NEW BRAUNFELS INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING BETWEEN GONZALES AND VICTORIA...WITH HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER MUCH OF THE AREA BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM THESE STORMS SO FAR...BUT THEY DO HAVE THE POTENTIAL IN THIS VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIR OVER SOUTH TEXAS TO PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS AS WELL AS THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 1.0 AND 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN GONZALES COUNTY SINCE 530 PM THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 67 min |
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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.