Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1994, 1:39 AM CDT for Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1994, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1994, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maverick County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 TTAA00 KSAT 080642 COR SVRSAT TXC323-080745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 139 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...MAVERICK COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED JUST NORTHEAST OF EAGLE PASS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. 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, May 8, 12:39 AM CDT, 1 hour before
TXZ184>189-202>207-217>223-228-080800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1240 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 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... AT 1230 AM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG A COLD FRONT FROM NEAR BRACKETTVILLE TO DEL RIO TO COMSTOCK AND LANGTRY. THE FRONT AND ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SO FAR VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...MARBLE-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AT 1230 AM WAS FALLING FROM JUST NORTH OF BRACKETTVILLE TO JUST NORTH OF DEL RIO. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR WERE ESTIMATED BY RADAR WITH THE STORMS. FORTUNATELY THEY HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT SUFFICIENT SPEED THAT MOST LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED BETWEEN .5| INCH AND 1 INCH...WITH ISOLATED TOTALS NEAR 3 INCHES IN THE HEAVIER RAIN.
Special weather statement, May 8, 12:40 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>207-217>223-228-080800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1240 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 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... AT 1230 AM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG A COLD FRONT FROM NEAR BRACKETTVILLE TO DEL RIO TO COMSTOCK AND LANGTRY. THE FRONT AND ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SO FAR VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...MARBLE-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN AT 1230 AM WAS FALLING FROM JUST NORTH OF BRACKETTVILLE TO JUST NORTH OF DEL RIO. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR WERE ESTIMATED BY RADAR WITH THE STORMS. FORTUNATELY THEY HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT SUFFICIENT SPEED THAT MOST LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED BETWEEN .5 INCH AND 1 INCH...WITH ISOLATED TOTALS NEAR 3 INCHES IN THE HEAVIER RAIN.
Special weather statement, May 8, 12:47 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
TXZ183-080630- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1250 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 300AM SUNDAY MORNING... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 1245 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COMSTOCK TO JUNO THEN TOWARDS ROCKSPRINGS. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEL RIO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WERE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. AS THESE STORMS WENT THROUGH THE VICINITY...LAUGHLIN AFB REPORTED WIND GUSTS OF 52 MPH...THE DEL RIO AIRPORT RECORDED 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THE VICINITY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND SLOWER TRAFFIC DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH LOW WATER CROSSINGS...THROUGHOUT VAL VERDE COUNTY. HIGHWAY 277 NORTH NEAR LOMA ALTA WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. 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 POSbSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 12:50 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
TXZ183-080630- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1250 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 300AM SUNDAY MORNING... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 1245 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COMSTOCK TO JUNO THEN TOWARDS ROCKSPRINGS. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEL RIO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WERE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. AS THESE STORMS WENT THROUGH THE VICINITY...LAUGHLIN AFB REPORTED WIND GUSTS OF 52 MPH...THE DEL RIO AIRPORT RECORDED 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THE VICINITY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND SLOWER TRAFFIC DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH LOW WATER CROSSINGS...THROUGHOUT VAL VERDE COUNTY. HIGHWAY 277 NORTH NEAR LOMA ALTA WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. 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 8, 1:30 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
TXZ188-190-192-191-208-080730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 130 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR TRAVIS COUNTY... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GILLESPIE...BLANCO...HAYS AND CALDWELL COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 126 AM SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM DEL RIO TO JUST NORTH OF SAN ANTONIO. NO SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING IN THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE. HOWEVER, CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH...BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TSCHIRHART
Special weather statement, May 8, 1:31 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
TXZ188-190-192-191-208-080730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 130 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR TRAVIS COUNTY... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GILLESPIE...BLANCO...HAYS AND CALDWELL COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 126 AM SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM DEL RIO TO JUST NORTH OF SAN ANTONIO. NO SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING IN THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE. HOWEVER, CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH...BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUjNED 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 7, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 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
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.