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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1989, 6:03 PM CDT for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1989, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1989, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goliad 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
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 586 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.6
- Supercell composite
- 22.2
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, 12:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1205 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1989
...PRELIMENARY STORM SUMMARY FOR TORNADO AT JARRELL AND FLASH
FLOODING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
TIME CDT... EVENT
0432 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AUSTIN REPORTED TWO HOUSES
DESTROYED IN JARRELL BY TORNADO FROM AUS 8/35
0620 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY LAMPASAS REPORT EXTENSIVE
DAMAGE IN JARRELL AND POSSIBLE ONE FATALITY AND SEVERAL
INJURIES...SEVERAL TRUCKS BLOWN OVER ON I 35.
0742 WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTED DAMAGE ALL OVER THE AREA WITH
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. THE APRNT FATILITY WAS LADY
IN MOBILE HOME THAT WAS HIT AND SHE WAS TRAPED UNDER
WATER BED. ALSO REPORTED THAT SOME TRAFFIC WAS BEGINNING
MOVE THROUGH THE AREA VERY SLOWLY.
DAMAGE PATH AT JARRELL HAS BEEN ASSESSED TO BE 1/2 MILE
WIDE AND 2 MILES LONG. DEBRIS EXTENDS ABOUT 7 MILES
DOWNRANGE TO THE NORTHEAST OF CITY. BETWEEN 5 AND 8
18 WHEELERS WERE OVERTURNED ALONG IH35 AND MOST POWER
LINES WERE DOWNED.
1200NOON AREA WIDE RAINFALLS HAVE RANGED MOSTLY IN THE 2 TO 4
INCH CATEGORY. MOST AREA CREEKS...STREAMS AND RUNOFF
POINTS WERE AT FLOOD LEVEL.
END.Local storm report, May 17, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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</html>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, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 36 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 |
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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.