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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 29, 1995Webb County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1995, 12:32 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
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, 5.5 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2536 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 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
2536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.4

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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 28, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb36 min
May 29, 12:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
May 29, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb3 hr
May 29, 12:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie2 hr
May 29, 1:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis117 min
May 29, 2:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
May 29, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson3 hr
May 29, 2:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
May 29, 3:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet2 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.