Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1994, 6:22 PM CDT for Schleicher County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1994, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1994, 7:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schleicher County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 272320 TORSJT TXC413-280030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 622 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN TEXAS ...SCHLEICHER COUNTY AT 615 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBE TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELDORADO MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDINrG 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
Special weather statement, May 27, 5:49 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
TXZ071-072-076-077-272350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 549 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994 AT 535 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF MERTZON AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERTZON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS.. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY TO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOWING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOTORISTS IN SOUTHEAST IRION...SOUTHWEST TOM GREEN AND NORTHWEST SCHLEICHER COUNTIES SHOULD APPROACH LOW WATER CROSSING WITH CAUTION. ANOTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS 20 MILES WEST OF OZONA. THIS STORM HAD LIGHT MODERATE RAIN AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 27, 5:49 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
TXZ071-072-076-077-272350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 549 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 1994 AT 535 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF MERTZON AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERTZON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS.. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY TO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOWING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOTORISTS IN SOUTHEAST IRION...SOUTHWEST TOM GREEN AND NORTHWEST SCHLEICHER COUNTIES SHOULD APPROACH LOW WATER CROSSING WITH CAUTION. ANOTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS 20 MILES WEST OF OZONA. THIS STORM HAD LIGHT MODERATE RAIN AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 65 min |
| May 26, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 68 min |
| May 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 61 min |
| May 27, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Reagan | 64 min |
| May 27, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 68 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.