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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 27, 2000Frio County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 11:56 PM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 27, 2000, 11:56 PM CDT (04:56 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Frio County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4256 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1415 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

403 
WUUS54 KEWX 280457
SVRSAT
TXC163-280530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1156 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  FRIO COUNTY

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1156 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEARSALL...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES NORTH OF DILLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.

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.