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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 29, 1994Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 1994, 7:18 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1994, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kinney County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 41 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-124 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 KSAT 300018 RRA
TORSAT
TXC271-300100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
718 PM CDT FRI APR 29 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH TEXAS
 
   ...KINNEY COUNTY
 
AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO IN KINNEY COUNTY NEAR BRACKETTVILLE. A POLICE OFFICER REPORTED A
FUNNEL CLOUD 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRACKETTVILLE WITHIN THE PAST 10 MINUT
.IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO M\OVE 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXUvalde59 min
Apr 29, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Apr 29, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr2 hr
Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney62 min
Apr 29, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio, Zavala63 min
Apr 30, 11:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCalhoun, Victoria40 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.