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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 8, 1986Mills County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1986, 7:28 PM CDT for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1986, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1986, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Mills County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-268 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 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 090030 RRA
SVRAUS
TXC333-090130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
728 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY OF

TEXAS... MILLS
CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MIGRATE TO THE EAST AND SOUTH.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG DAMAGING WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY
ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY.

LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb59 min
May 9, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Real68 min
May 9, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr56 min
May 9, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde56 min
May 9, 4:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde4 hr
May 9, 4:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr4 hr

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.