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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1994, 5:58 PM CST for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 1994, 5:58 PM CST (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 1994, 6:38 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 2471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 050000 TORAUS TXC491-050100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 558 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY AT 6 PM A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH INDICATIONS OF TORNADIC DEVELOPMENT WAS OVER ELGIN MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. 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 NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. WHEN YDOUR COUNTY IS INCLUDED IN A WARNING...YOUR EYES AND EARS BECOME YOUR BEST WARNING DEVICE. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO STORM LOCATION AND MOVEMENT. YOU MAY BE DOWNRANGE AND NEXT IN LINE TO DEAL WITH ITS EFFECTS.
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
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 4:26 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
TXZ173-192-191-193-194-209-174-042330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 426 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 430 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS 20 MILES EAST OF ROUND ROCK. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES PER HOUR AND HAS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BLEW SOME TREE BRANCHES DOWN. AT THIS TIME THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THE STORM IS SEVERE...HOWEVER...IT MAY PRODUCE WEAK FUNNEL CLOUDS ALONG ITS PATH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE REGION. ALL MOVING NORTH AT 20 TO 25 MILES PER HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES... TSCHIRHART &
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 4:29 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
TXZ173-192-191-193-194-209-174-042330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 426 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 430 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS 20 MILES EAST OF ROUND ROCK. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES PER HOUR AND HAS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BLEW SOME TREE BRANCHES DOWN. AT THIS TIME THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THE STORM IS SEVERE...HOWEVER...IT MAY PRODUCE WEAK FUNNEL CLOUDS ALONG ITS PATH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE REGION. ALL MOVING NORTH AT 20 TO 25 MILES PER HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES... TSCHIRDHART &
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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.