Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 1:28 AM CDT for Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 5, 1992, 1:28 AM CDT (06:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randall County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:05 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Randall, TX | |
| Jun 5, 2:30 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Randall, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 1541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-050200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 735 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR ARMSTRONG..DONLEY..BRISCOE..HALL AND CHILDRESS COUNTIES... THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED EARLIER. HOWEVER...POTTER..RANDALL.. OLDHAM..DEAF SMITH..PARMER..CASTRO..AND SWISHER COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING. THE WATCH ALSO CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE WESTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TG
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-050145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 753 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 740 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY NEAR DUMAS AND BRYDEN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN MOORE COUNTY SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THIS STORM IT MOVES SOUTH AT 10 MPH ACROSS THE COUNTY. BECAUSE OF THE STORMS SLOW MOVEMENT...THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS EXSISTS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS UNION AND HARDING COUNTIES FROM AROUND PASAMONTE SOUTH TO MOSQUERO. ^ MOVEMENT WAS ALSO TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 68 min |
| Jun 4, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 69 min |
| Jun 4, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Sherman | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 1:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Carson | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 2:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall, Swisher | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Swisher | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 41 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.