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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 1994DeWitt County, Lavaca County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1994, 3:50 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties DeWitt County, TX, Lavaca County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 344 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 KVCT 132048
TORVCT
TXC123-285-132145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
350 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN DEWITT COUNTY...SOUTHERN LAVACA COUNTY
 
AT 345 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF CUERO
IN EASTERN DEWITT COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH
AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LAVACA COUNTY BY 4 PM.
 
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.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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, 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, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Victoria	65 min

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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.