Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1994, 9:39 PM CDT for McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County McMullen County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 2045 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 290241 SVRSAT TXC311-290345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 939 PM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...MCMULLEN COUNTY AT 935 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF TILDEN MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT NEAR 20 MILES PER HOUR. HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN .OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
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 28, 5:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ221-222-282300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 510 PM CDT THU APR 28 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR KARNES AND WILSON COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED... AT 5 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED EARLIER IN KARNES AND WILSON COUNTIES HAVE DISSIPATED AND MOVED EAST. NO ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT WAS INDICATED BACK TO THE WEST. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN KARNES OR WILSON COUNTY AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994Every 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.