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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 5, 1993Victoria County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 7:07 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1993, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 1993-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2426 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 1993-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 204 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
2426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
372 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.9
Supercell composite
16.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb68 min
May 5, 8:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXJackson3 hr
May 5, 11:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXJackson, Victoria4 hr

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.