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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 4, 2002Kinney County, Maverick County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 9:25 PM CDT for Kinney County, Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2002, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 2002-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2852 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 2002-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
2852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 050225
SVRSAT
TXC271-323-050330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
923 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  KINNEY
  MAVERICK

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 923 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST TO PARTS OF MAVERICK AND
  KINNEY COUNTY AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.  9 PM CDT SURFACE MAPS ALSO
  SUPPORT INCREASING THUNDERSTORMS OVER KINNEY AND MAVERICK 
  COUNTIES. 

STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME HAIL WITH
THERE THUNDERSTORMS. 

LAT...LON 2900 10060 2836 10019 2957 10019 2956 10063

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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.