Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1992, 10:23 PM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1992, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 678 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 17, 6:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
NMC035-TXC109-141-229-180115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 520 PM MDT (620 PM CDT) FRI JUL 17 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS... RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A 25 MILE WIDE LINE THAT EXTENDS FROM THE ALAMOGORDO NEW NEXICO AREA TO JUST NORTH OF SIERRA BLANCA TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE PASSING THROUGH THE CORNUDAS/DELLCITY OF WEST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS THROUGH THE CITY OF SIERRA BLANCA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY...POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS...SMALL HAIL...LIGHTING AND PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA ON EITHER HIGHWAY 62/180 BETWEEN EL PASO TEXAS AND CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO OR INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10 SHOULD BE AWARE OF THESE STRONG AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO PULL OVER AND WAIT UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS.
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
NMC035-TXC109-141-229-180330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 731 PM MDT (831 PM CDT) FRI JUL 17 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS... RADAR AND SATELLITE SHOW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST OUT OF SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY NEW MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE APPROACHING THE NORTHERN EL PASO TEXAS CITY LIMITS AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE CITY WITHIN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE SIERRA BLANCA/VAN HORN TEXAS AREA. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STROMS MAY HAVE STRONG GUSTY WIND...HAIL...LIGHTING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RA(IN. THE HEAVIER RAINS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Jeff Davis | 57 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.