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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 29, 1996Webb County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 12:36 AM CDT for Webb 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 29, 1996, 12:36 AM CDT (05:36 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
69 min
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, 5.6 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 1996-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3590 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 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
3590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.8

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 9:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ171-172-183-184-290415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
915 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU
AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY...

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 482 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  EARLIER THIS EVENING
POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED WEST OF DEL RIO AND BETWEEN SAN
ANGELO AND ABILENE PROMPTING ISSUANCE OF A TORNADO WATCH.  THE STORMS
HAVE DISSIPATED OR MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

STAYED TUNED TO ANY ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND/OR WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.