Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 11, 1996Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 5:47 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1996, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kenedy County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 11, 6:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Port Mansfield, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1601 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 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 11, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER FORECAST REASONING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1996

SATL PICS INDCT THE CENTR OF THE VORICITY TO BE JUST NORTH OF CORPUS
CHRISTI.  THE ETA MODE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo, Willacy55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.