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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 15, 1994Victoria County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 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, 2.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 15, 3:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

TXC021-031-053-281-209-453-491-331-287-021-055-149-152130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
344 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR L

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 6:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

TXZ190-192-191-193-208-194-209-160000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
605 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN BY RADAR FROM SAN ANTONIO THROUGH
SAN MARCOS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LULING
TO NEAR HOUSTON.  THEY WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

...THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TRAVIS...BASTROP...FAYETTE...
CALDWELL...HAYS...BLANCO AND LEE COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT...

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS...STATE-
MENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

PEEK

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 8:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

TXZ192-193-208-209-160230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
827 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR FAYETTE AND CALDWELL
COUNTIES...

AT 815 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR HEMPSTEAD AND 5 MILES EAST OF
SCHULENBERG.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

ANOTHER VERY STRONG STORM WAS JUST EAST OF SHINER AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL REACH SCHULENBERG BY 9 PM.

IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES...THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY
RAINFALL.  PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO
MOVE TO SAFETY IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LEACH

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 9:00 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	La Salle	63 min
Apr 15, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson	60 min
Apr 15, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt	58 min
Apr 15, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	51 min
Apr 15, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Webb	64 min
Apr 15, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	McMullen	62 min
Apr 15, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Goliad, Victoria	60 min
Apr 15, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.