Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 5:21 AM CDT for Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1996, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Zapata County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 30, 2:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 255 AM CDT THU MAY 30 1996 TSTM COMPLEX MOVG INTO WEBB CO EXTENDS SWD WITH SOME ACTVTY ALSO INTO ZAPATA CO AT THIS TIME. A SLO EWD PROGRESSION IS SEEN. BRO 88D SEES 52 THSD TOP NW OF LRD. FCST QUESTION IS HOW MUCH FURTHER E THIS SYS WILL PROGRESS BEFORE IT DSPTS. FEELING IS THAT 20 OR 30 PCT POPS IN ORDER FOR ZAPATA CO FOR SURE AND SHUD BE MENTIONED FOR STARR AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES AS WELL. BEST TO LEAVE OUT FOR REMAINDER OF DEEP S TX FOR NOW AS TIME OF DAY NOT CONDUCIVE FOR MUCH PROPAGATION TWD E. NOT OPPOSED TO KEEPING NORMAL ZONE GROUPING WITH POPS MENTIONED FOR HIDALGO AND BROOKS ALSO JUST IN CASE TSTMS HOLD TOGETHER LONGER. POPS ONLY FOR MORNING. GONE BY AFTN. PSBL REGENERATION TNGT AS VORT MAX RMNS IN VCTY THRU 36 HRS BEFORE DISAPPEARING. OTRW...ONGOING FCST IN NO NEED OF MAJOR REVISIONS. GNLY PC WITH LTL TEMP CHANGES. WINDIER BY FRI AS MORE LO PRES GETS GOING IN LEE OF ROCKIES. BREEZY TDA AND WINDY FRI WHICH SHUD ALSO HELP TO MINIMIZE ANY MEAGER TSTM THREAT THAT HAS TEMPORARILY SET UP NOW. 57 PRELIMS: BRO 093/078 093/078 093 05/05/05 MFE 097/078 097/078 097 10/05/05 RGC 101/0678 102/078 102 20/05/05 SPI 086/078 086/078 086 05/05/05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 69 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.