Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

February 24, 1992Jim Wells County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 1992, 1:52 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 24, 1992, 1:52 PM CST (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Feb 24, 1992, 3:00 PM CST
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Jim Wells County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-02-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1285 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
1285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 3:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPKleberg, Nueces58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.