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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 28, 1992DeWitt County, Victoria County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1992, 4:59 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 28, 1992, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties DeWitt County, TX, Victoria County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	De Witt, 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KVCT 282200
SVRVCT
TXC123-469-282245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
459 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...DEWITT COUNTY...VICTORIA COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM VICTORIA RADAR SHOWS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN DEWITT AND
VICTORIA COUNTIES MOVGING EAST AT EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY...YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

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, 2 hours 43 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	115 min
May 27, 7:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr
May 27, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	63 min
May 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	65 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	59 min
May 27, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	56 min
May 27, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	40 min
May 27, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	52 min
May 27, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	49 min
May 28, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	61 min
May 28, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Jackson	44 min
May 28, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Goliad	50 min
May 28, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Goliad	55 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.