Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1994, 6:28 PM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 72 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1994, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1994, 7:40 PM CST
- In force
- 72 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 070030 SVRSAT TXC029-070230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 628 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...BEXAR COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR ALONG THE BEXAR COUNTY AND COMAL COUNTY LINES MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AROUND 10 MPH. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVED OVER KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING vAND 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, Mar 6, 4:09 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ185>189-203>206-062310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 410 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... DURING THE PAST 30 MINUTES A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED OVER BANDERA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PART OF A LINE OF DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH STRETCHED FROM WEST OF AUSTIN INTO UVALDE COUNTY WEST OHF SAN ANTONIO. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS... BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 4:10 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ185>189-203>206-062310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 410 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... DURING THE PAST 30 MINUTES A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED OVER BANDERA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PART OF A LINE OF DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH STRETCHED FROM WEST OF AUSTIN INTO UVALDE COUNTY WEST OF SAN ANTONIO. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS... BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 5:00 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ186>189-203>207-070010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 AT 5 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES FROM THE NORTHWEST. GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE IN AND AROUND CANYON LAKE MAY EXPERIENCE THE WEATHER FROM THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THEIR AREA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTH CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AROUND SUNSET.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 5:01 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TXZ186>189-203>207-070010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 AT 5 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES FROM THE NORTHWEST. GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE IN AND AROUND CANYON LAKE MAY EXPERIENCE THE WEATHER FROM THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THEIR AREA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTH CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AROUND SUNSET.
Local storm report, Mar 6, 5:55 PM CST, 33 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
555 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994
TIME/CST COUNTY EVENT...OF 6 MARCH 1994...
0407 PM BLANCO THE BLANCO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS 1 INCH
DIAMETER HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF JOHNSON CITY ALONG
U. S. HIGHWAY 290.
/SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED BLANCO/HAYS
COUNTIES AT 350PM CST/
TMK/JVD/RLLocal storm report, Mar 6, 5:57 PM CST, 31 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
555 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994
TIME/CST COUNTY EVENT...OF 6 MARCH 1994...
0407 PM BLANCO THE BLANCO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS 1 INCH
$ DIAMETER HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF JOHNSON CITY ALONG
U. S. HIGHWAY 290.
/SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED BLANCO/HAYS
COUNTIES AT 350PM CST/
TMK/JVD/RLNearby
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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.