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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 14, 1992Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 3:36 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1992, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1992, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Willacy, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 2205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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

Special weather statement, May 14, 1:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

TXZ041>44-142000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
125 PM CDT THU MAY 14 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH TEXAS...

AT 125 PM SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP OVER SOUTH TEXAS BETWEEN
KINGSVILLE AND RAYMONDVILLE AND EAST TO THE GULF COASTLINE.

THE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 30 MILES
NORTHEAST OF RAYMONDVILLE.  MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS NORTHEAST AT 10
MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF
PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE
GUSTY WINDS4.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER SOURCES FOR FURTHER

UPDATES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	69 min
May 14, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	50 min
May 14, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	61 min
May 14, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.