Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1994, 5:22 PM CDT for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 1994, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comal County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 744 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Apr 5, 2:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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TXZ189>-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 445 PM CDT TUE APR 05 1994 ....THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH KENDALL COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR COMFORT...TEXAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ALONG A COLD FRONT. THE COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TO THE AUSTIN AREA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTN>ING AND LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER AND MOVE TO A SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING.
Special weather statement, Apr 5, 5:05 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ189-206-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 505 PM CDT TUE APR 05 1994 ....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS KENDALL COUNTY AND COMAL COUNTIES MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. STORNG GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE LARGE THUNDERSTORMS. PLEpASE CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Apr 5, 5:07 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ189-206-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 505 PM CDT TUE APR 05 1994 ....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS KENDALL COUNTY AND COMAL COUNTIES MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE LARGE THUNDERSTORMS. PLE~ASE CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 46 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.