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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 1994DeWitt County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County DeWitt County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 339 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 956 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KVCT 131944
TORVCT
TXC123-132045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
245 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...DEWITT COUNTY AND LAVACA COUNTY
 
AT 237 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF CUERO
HEADING TOWARD THE TOWN OF CUERO. ALSO A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE
GROUND IN LAVACA COUNTY NEAR MOULTON. PERSONS IN THE PATCH OF THESE
STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOIDR WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 2 hours 39 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, 2 hours 35 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, 2 hours 35 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 1:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Val Verde	94 min
May 13, 1:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	San Saba	3 hr
May 13, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	65 min
May 13, 12:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	58 min
May 13, 12:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	48 min
May 13, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe	55 min
May 13, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	55 min
May 13, 1:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Hays	32 min
May 13, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Lavaca	8 min
May 13, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio	70 min
May 13, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Wilson	65 min
May 13, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt	61 min
May 13, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop	28 min
May 13, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	McMullen	58 min
May 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	49 min
May 13, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	55 min
May 13, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Victoria	65 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.