Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1994, 11:40 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1994, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1994, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KDRT 080438 RRA SVRDRT TXC465-080530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1140 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE AT 1135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE COMSTOCK AREA...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..DESTRUCTIVE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, May 7, 11:23 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>207-217>223-228-080600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1125 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTH OF AN EAGLE PASS TO SAN ANTONIO TO KARNES CITY TO GONZALES LINE UNTIL 300 AM SUNDAY MORNING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EDWARDS COUNTY... AT 1120 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO FROM ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT STRETCHED FROM NEAR BURNET TO KERRVILLE TO COMSTOCK AND LANGTRY JUST WEST OF DEL RIO. THE FRONT AND ITS ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... MARBLE-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AT 1120 PM WAS FALLING ALONG THE EDWARDS/KINNEY COUNTY LINE...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF BRACKETTVILLE. RADAR SUGGESTS THAT LESS THAN AN INCH HAS FALLEN OVER THIS AREA IN THE PAST HOUR...BUT IF THE STORMS SLOW THEIR MOVEMENT AGAIN...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND SLOW-DRAINING AREAS ALONG THE WEST FORK OF THE NUECES RIVER COULD BEGIN TO FLOOD.
Special weather statement, May 7, 11:23 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ183-080500- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1125 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 300AM SUNDAY MORNING... AT 1120 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR THE ROUGH CANYON BY SPOTTERS. MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE APPROACHING STORMS. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS BEING REPORTED IN THE LOS CAMPOS AREA. BOATERS AND FISHERMAN ALONG LAKE AMITSAD SHOULD CONSIDER TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES. TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER...RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 7, 11:25 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ183-080500- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1125 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 300AM SUNDAY MORNING... AT 1120 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR THE ROUGH CANYON BY SPOTTERS. MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE APPROACHING STORMS. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS BEING REPORTED IN THE LOS CAMPOS AREA. BOATERS AND FISHERMAN ALONG LAKE AMITSAD SHOULD CONSIDER TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES. TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER...RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 7, 11:25 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>207-217>223-228-080600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1125 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTH OF AN EAGLE PASS TO SAN ANTONIO TO KARNES CITY TO GONZALES LINE UNTIL 300 AM SUNDAY MORNING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EDWARDS COUNTY... AT 1120 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO FROM ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT STRETCHED FROM NEAR BURNET TO KERRVILLE TO COMSTOCK AND LANGTRY JUST WEST OF DEL RIO. THE FRONT AND ITS ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... MARBLE-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AT 1120 PM WAS FALLING ALONG THE EDWARDS/KINNEY COUNTY LINE...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF BRACKETTVILLE. RADAR SUGGESTS THAT LESS THAN AN INCH HAS FALLEN OVER THIS AREA IN THE PAST HOUR...BUT IF THE STORMS SLOW THEIR MOVEMENT AGAIN...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND SLOW-DRAINING AREAS ALONG THE WEST FORK OF THE NUECES RIVER COULD BEGIN TO FLOOD.
Special weather statement, May 7, 11:35 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
TXZ171-172-188-190-173-192-191-193-208-070630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1135 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR BASTROP...LLANO...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFECT FOR GILLESPIE...BLANCO...TRAVIS...CALDWELL AND HAYS COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 1130 PM THERE WAS NO SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN ANY OF THE ABOVE COUNTIES REMAINING UNDER THE WATCH. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS CONFINED TO SOUTHWEST TEXAS. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES UNDER THE WATCH YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS IN AND AROUND YOUR COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TSCHIRHART
Special weather statement, May 7, 11:36 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
TXZ171-172-188-190-173-192-191-193-208-070630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1135 PM CDT WED APR 6 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR BASTROP...LLANO...BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFECT FOR GILLESPIE...BLANCO...TRAVIS...CALDWELL AND HAYS COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 1130 PM THERE WAS NO SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN ANY OF THE ABOVE COUNTIES REMAINING UNDER THE WATCH. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS CONFINED TO SOUTHWEST TEXAS. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES UNDER THE WATCH YZOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS IN AND AROUND YOUR COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TSCHIRHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 59 min |
| May 8, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 66 min |
| May 8, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 58 min |
| May 8, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 57 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.