Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 4, 1992, 3:02 AM CST for Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 1992, 3:02 AM CST (09:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 4, 1992, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Willacy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBRO 040904 SVRBRO TXC489-041000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 302 AM CST TUE FEB 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...WILLACY COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THE BAY WATERS OF THE LAGUNA MADRE RADAR SHOWES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN RAYMONDVILLE AND HARLINGEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO/ ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Feb 3, 9:03 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ041>044-0404O0-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
830 PM CST MON FEB 3 1992
... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH TEXAS..INCLUDING THE LOWER
RIO GRANDE VALLEY... THROUGH TONIGHT ...
AT 830 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF FALFURRIAS SOUTH
TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF EDINBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF THE CURRENT MOVEMENT CONTINUES THE
THUNDERSTORMS COULD SLIDE BY NORTH OF THE MISSION... MCALLEN EDINBURG
AREA. BUT THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD EASILY REDEVELOP TO THE SOUTH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN... HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE
THUNDERSTORMS. THE CUSTOMS AEROSTAT SITE NORTH OF RIO GRANDE CITY
REPORTED A TOTAL OF 1.30 INCHES OF RAIN... AND A RANCH JUST NORTHWEST OF
THE SITE REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.
OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS W{ERE OVER SOUTH TEXAS FROM THE RIO
GRANDE CITY... FALCON LAKE AREA NORTHEAST THROUGH THE BAFFIN BAY...
CORPUS CHRISTI AREA... OVER THE GULF WATERS... AND OVER MEXICO FROM
SOUTH OF MCALLEN WESTWARD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.Special weather statement, Feb 3, 11:53 PM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ041>044-0407O0- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1128 PM CST MON FEB 3 1992 ... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS INCLUDING THE LOWER VALLEY UNTIL 300 AM... ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFING BAY TO EAST OF PORT MANSFIELD UNTIL 1245 AM. ... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH TEXAS..INCLUDING THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY... THROUGH TONIGHT ... AT 1128 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN AN AREA 40 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MISSION NORTHEASTWARD TO 50 MILES EAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 TMPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN... HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE GULF WATERS... AND OVER MEXICO FROM SOUTH OF MCALLEN WESTWARD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 4, 1:53 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ041>044-0409O0- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 130 AM CST TUE FEB 4 1992 ... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KENNEDY... WILLACY... HIDALGO AND CAMERON COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM... ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO EAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE ARROYO UNTIL 245 AM. ... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH TEXAS..INCLUDING THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY... THROUGH TONIGHT ... AT 130 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE THE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE SOUTH TEXAS COAST HAD SLOWED IN THEIR SOUTH MOVWARD MOVEMENT... BUT THUNDERSTORMS HAD INCREASED IN MEXICO AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD THE VALLEY. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS WERE NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF EDINBURG THROUGH A POINT 10 MILES NORTH OF SOUTH PADRE ISLAND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE BOUY 80 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT ISABEL REPORT WIND GUST TO 31 KNOTS... OR 36 MPH FROM ONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH WITH ONE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE RIVER NEAR HIDALGO. VERY HEAVY RAIN... HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Feb 4, 3:01 AM CST, 1 minute before
TXZ041>044-0409O0- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 230 AM CST TUE FEB 4 1992 ... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KENNEDY... WILLACY... HIDALGO AND CAMERON COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM... ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO EAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE ARROYO UNTIL 245 AM. ... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH TEXAS..INCLUDING THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY... THROUGH TONIGHT ... AT 230 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN A 40 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM TH BAY ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF RAYMONDVILLE TO THE RIVER SOUTH OF WESLACO THEN SOUTH INTO MEXICO TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF BROWNSVILLE. MOVEMENT WASNORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN... HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER OVER THE GULF WATERS OF SOUTH TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH).
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 60 min |
| Feb 3, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.