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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 28, 1992Bastrop County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1992, 4:14 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1992, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bastrop County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 1992-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 952 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1992-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 180 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
952 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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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 28, 2:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
TXZ035-282115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
215 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992

AT 210 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HONDO...TEXAS
SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN KENDALL
COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL ARE POSSIBLE
OVER KENDALL COUNTY FROM THIS STORM IN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays115 min
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, 4:59 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

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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.