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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 17, 1989Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1989, 5:39 AM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1989, 5:39 AM CDT (10:39 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1989, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Kinney 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 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-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: 3533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 2:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 2:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 3:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 4:49 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 4:54 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 5:38 AM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	45 min
May 16, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	40 min
May 16, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	60 min
May 16, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	69 min
May 16, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	60 min
May 16, 11:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	40 min
May 16, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	66 min
May 17, 12:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney	45 min
May 17, 12:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	60 min
May 17, 12:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	62 min
May 17, 1:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	60 min
May 17, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	60 min
May 17, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	65 min
May 17, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	46 min
May 17, 8:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Gillespie	4 hr
May 17, 8:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 17, 9:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	66 min
May 17, 9:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	44 min
May 17, 9:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet	3 hr
May 17, 10:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Hays	3 hr
May 17, 11:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Lee, Milam	3 hr
May 17, 11:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	3 hr
May 17, 2:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Fayette	118 min
May 17, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	58 min
May 17, 3:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee	75 min
May 17, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burleson, Lee	75 min
May 17, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	75 min
May 17, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	60 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Goliad, Victoria	63 min
May 17, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Goliad	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.