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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 26, 1992Wilson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1992, 5:14 PM CDT for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1992, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wilson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1992-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 553 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 1992-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 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
553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-392 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 262217
SVRSAT
TXC493-262300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
514 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH TEXAS
 
   ...WILSON COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST ENTERING THE
NORTHERN PORTION OF WILSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF LA VERNIA. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS STORM HAD
PRODUCED LARGE HAIL OVER EASTERN BEXAR COUNTY.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY
OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

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, 1:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ039-262100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
140 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1992

...A FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED NEAR THE BEXAR/KENDALL COUNTY LINE...

AROUND 130 PM CDT...A FUNNE

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, 4:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb48 min
May 26, 6:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWebb3 hr
May 26, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe64 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.