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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 26, 1992Webb County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1992, 4:42 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1992, 4:42 AM CDT (09:42 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1992, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Webb County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1670 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.7

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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 26, 12:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick67 min
May 25, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDimmit66 min
May 25, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick55 min
May 25, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb68 min
May 26, 6:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWebb3 hr
May 26, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe64 min
May 26, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilson46 min
May 26, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales, Karnes38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.