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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 1994Bastrop County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1994, 2:47 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Bastrop County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	South Portion, TX	Tornado reported by Department of Public Safety trooper in central Bastrop County. Second report 30 minutes later from south part of county. Lightning knocked out electrical power to some 400 residents of Bastrop for up to 16 hours.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAUS 131949
TORAUS
TXC021-132015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
247 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BASTROP COUNTY
 
...TORNADO SIGHTED IN BASTROP COUNTY...
 
...AT 245 PM DPS IN BASTROP COUNTY REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND ON
COUNTY ROAD 191 IN BASTROP COUNTY MOVING NORTH NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR.
PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID
WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...
BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OR IN YOUR CAR...DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A
TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.
LEAVE THE CAR...GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF bNO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
 
 
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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 41 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 37 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 37 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, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.