Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 1994, 4:31 AM CST for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1994, 4:31 AM CST (10:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1994, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goliad County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVCT 231034 RRA SVRVCT TXC175-231115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 431 AM CST WED FEB 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GOLIAD COUNTY AT 430 AM VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO GOLIAD COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE TOWNS OF BERCLAIR AND GOLIAD SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE APPROACH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Feb 22, 11:55 PM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
TXC186>189-204>207-219>223-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1155 PM CST TUE FEB 22 1994 ...A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE FRONT WARM SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE THE TEMPERATURE TO RISE TO NEAR 80 DEGREES. AROUND MID AFTERNOON THE WIND IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT TO THE NORTH...BECOMING WINDY AND GUSTY...AND THE TEMPERATURE WILL BEGIN TO DROP. TEMPEATURES COULD BE IN THE 50S AT SUNSET AND IN THE 30S SATURDAY MORNING. A FREEZE IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN THE HILL COUNTRY. THE TEMPERATURE IN SAN ANTONIO IS EXPECTED TO STAY ABOVE FREEZING. ALTHOUGH NO RAIN IS EXPECTED TONIGHT THE WIND COULD LOWER THE WIND CHILL INTO THE TEENS MAKING OUTDOOR ACTVIITY UNCOMFORTABLE. SATURDAY WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLYCOOLER THAN TODAY WITH TEMPERATURES CLIMBING ONLY INTO THE 50S.
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 2:58 AM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
TXZ229-230-239-231100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 300 AM CST WED FEB 23 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NEAR LAREDO AND COTULLA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY THIS MORNING FROM LAREDO TO COTULLA TO TILDEN. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH WEBB...LASALLE...AND MCMULLEN COUNTIES THIS MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE EASTWARD AND OFF THE TEXAS COAST LATER THIS MORNING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH AND COOLER DRIER AIR FILTERS IN FROM THE NORTH.
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
TXZ229-230-239-231100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 300 AM CST WED FEB 23 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NEAR LAREDO AND COTULLA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY THIS MORNING FROM LAREDO TO COTULLA TO TILDEN. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH WEBB...LASALLE...AND MCMULLEN COUNTIES THIS MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE EASTWARD AND OFF THE TEXAS COAST LATER THIS MORNING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH AND COOLER DRIER AIR FILTERS IN FROM THE NORTH. WWUS46KWBC -k 8WWUS46 KWBC 230859 j
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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.