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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 28, 1992Wharton County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1992, 4:39 PM CDT for Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1992, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wharton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris, Liberty, Montgomery54 min
May 27, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston62 min
May 27, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston62 min
May 27, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk, Trinity59 min
May 27, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXColorado60 min
May 27, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin62 min
May 27, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris, Waller63 min
May 28, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston67 min
May 28, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXFort Bend, Harris59 min
May 28, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris61 min
May 28, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXColorado57 min
May 28, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty60 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.