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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 1994Victoria County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1994, 4:25 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1994, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 325 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3519 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 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

Local storm report, May 13, 12:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
715APM CDT TUE MAY 03 1994

TIME/CDT  COUNTY       EVENT...OF 13 MAY 1994...

1120AM CDT BURNET      SOUTH OF MARBLE FALLS ... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                       UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD... AT HWY 71 AND 280
                       THUNDERSTORM REPORTED AS SEVERE BY TROOPER.
1121AM CDT GILLESPIE   HAM RADIO REPORTED HIGHWAY 16 ... 10 MILES NORTH
                       OF FREDERICKSBURGv CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
1145AM CDT BURNET      SHERIFF AND LCRA REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCH DOWN
                       IN AND NEAR MARBLE FALLS...REPORTED HOMES AND
                       BUILDINGS DOWN...POSSIBLE PEOPLE TRAPPED.
WITHROW
Local storm report, May 13, 12:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1210PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994  THIS LINE CORRECTED

TIME/CDT  COUNTY       EVENT...OF 13 MAY 1994...

1120AM CDT BURNET      SOUTH OF MARBLE FALLS ... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                       UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD... AT HWY 71 AND 280
                       THUNDERSTORM REPORTED AS SEVERE BY TROOPER.
1121AM CDT GILLESPIE   HAM RADIO REPORTED HIGHWAY 16 ... 10 MILES NORTH
                       OF FREDERICKSBURG CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
1145AM CDT BURNET      SHERIFF AND LCRA REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCH DOWN
                       IN AND NEAR MARBLE FALLS...REPORTED HOMES AND
                       BUILDINGS DOWN...POSSIBLE PEOPLE TRAPPED.
WITHROW
Local storm report, May 13, 12:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1210PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994  THIS LINE CORRECTED

TIME/CDT  COUNTY       EVENT...OF 13 MAY 1994...

1120AM CDT BURNET      SOUTH OF MARBLE FALLS ... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                       UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD... AT HWY 71 AND 280
                       THUNDERSTORM REPORTED AS SEVERE BY TROOPER.
1121AM CDT GILLESPIE   HAM RADIO REPORTED HIGHWAY 16 ... 10 MILES NORTH
                       OF FREDERICKSBURG CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
1145AM CDT BURNET      SHERIFF AND LCRA REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCH DOWN
                       IN AND NEAR MARBLE FALLS...REPORTED HOMES AND
                       BUILDINGS DOWN...POSSIBLE PEOPLE TRAPPED.
WITHROW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 1:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde94 min
May 13, 1:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXSan Saba3 hr
May 13, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis, Williamson65 min
May 13, 12:37 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXLavaca58 min
May 13, 12:42 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXWilliamson48 min
May 13, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Guadalupe55 min
May 13, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilson55 min
May 13, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXHays32 min
May 13, 1:37 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXLavaca8 min
May 13, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa, Frio70 min
May 13, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales, Wilson65 min
May 13, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt61 min
May 13, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXDeWitt60 min
May 13, 2:47 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBastrop28 min
May 13, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMcMullen58 min
May 13, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXFayette49 min
May 13, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXDeWitt, Lavaca55 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.