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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 26, 1990Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1990, 5:14 PM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1990, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Liberty 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 443 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
443 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-618 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 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

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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.