Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1994, 11:10 PM CDT for Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1994, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1994, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lavaca County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 3185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVCT 120412 SVRVCT TXC285-120515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 1110 PM CDT MON APR 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN LAVACA COUNTY AT 1110 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN SHINER AND MOULTON MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY...YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
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 11, 5:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ172-188-173-192-191-193-208-194-209-174-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 557 PM CDT MON APR 11 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 6 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE COLD FRONT FROM 10 MILES EAST OF TEMPLE TO GEORGETOWN AND FROM BUDA TO SAN ANTONIO. THE STORMS AND THE COLD FRONT WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTH OF ELGIN AND NEAR SAN MARCOS. LEA8CH
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 8:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ193-208-209-174-195-120230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 829 PM CDT MON APR 11 1994 AT 825 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE...10 MILES WIDE...OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CAMERON IN MILAM COUNTY THROUGH ROCKDALE AND THORNDALE INTO BASTROP COUNTY NEAR ELGIN AND BASTROP ON DOWN INTO CALDWELL COUNTY NEAR LOCKHART AND LULING. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. A FEW SMALL SPOTS NEAR ROCKDALE AND WEST OF LEXINGTON AND BASTROP INDICATED POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND VERY INTENSE RAINFALLS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRECEDING A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT...WHICH PASSED THROUGH AUSTIN AROUND SUNSET. JVD
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
TXZ193-208-194-209-195-120345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 950 PM CDT MON APR 11 1994 ATY 945 PM...RADAR SHOWED A NARROW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM COLLEGE STATION TO JUST EAST OF BASTROP AND LULING. IT WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HIGHEST RAINFALL RATES WERE NEAR ONE INCH PER HOUR IN A FEW SPOTS NEAR GIDDINGS...WEST OF LA GRANGE AND EAST OF LULING. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. THEY SHOULD BE IN THE BRENHAM AND LA GRANGE AREA BETWEEN 10 AND 11 PM. JVD
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 10:53 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ239-120500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1050 PM CDT MON APR 12 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN GONZALES COUNTY... AT 1050 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN GONZALES COUNTY JUST TO THE EAST OF THE TOWN OF GONZALES. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE AREA NEED TO BE ALERT AND TAKE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER OCCUR...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
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.