Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 7:22 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports 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 14, 1992, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Potter County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Potter, TX | |
| May 14, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Potter, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 2100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 14, 5:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-142325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 553 PM CDT THU MAY 14 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN CARSON COUNTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 545 PM CDT...AMARILLO WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A SMALL AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS IN CARSON COUNTY BETWEEN PANHANDLE AND SKELLYTOWN. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HA+IL. LITTLE MOVEMENT HAS OCCURRED AT THIS TIME. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS SOURCES FOR LATER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 67 min |
| May 14, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 56 min |
| May 14, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 35 min |
| May 14, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 50 min |
| May 14, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 53 min |
| May 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.