Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 1:58 PM CDT for Fayette County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, TX, Lee County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 1310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -345 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 151859 SVRAUS TXC149-287-151945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 158 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY...SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY JUST BEFORE 2 PM...RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SMITHVILLE...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA GRANGE. LARGE HAIL WAS INDICATED IN A SMALL SPOT OVER THE SOUTHERN TIP OF LEE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. 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, Apr 15, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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vEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 1:19 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ172-188-190-173-192-191-193-208-151915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 118 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 JUST AFTER 1 PM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS TO BE INTENSIFYING OVER PARTS OF LEE AND BASTROP COUNTIES...WHILE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS DOTTED THE HILL COUNTRY NORTH AND SOUTH OF FREDERICKSBURG. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 20 MPH. REMEMBER...A LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAS BEEN PLACED UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION AND LISTEN FOR LATER REPORTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JVD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 66 min |
| Apr 15, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 66 min |
| Apr 15, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 61 min |
| Apr 15, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 49 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.