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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 27, 1992Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1992, 7:05 PM CDT for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1992, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hays County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 7:13 PM CDTHail 0.75Hays, TX
May 27, 8:40 PM CDTHail 1Hays, 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

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 615 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.0

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis2 hr
May 27, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis63 min
May 27, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson65 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays59 min
May 27, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop56 min
May 27, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell40 min
May 27, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays52 min
May 27, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal49 min
May 28, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop61 min
May 28, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt, Victoria46 min
May 28, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXJackson44 min
May 28, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXGoliad50 min
May 28, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGoliad55 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.