Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1992, 11:15 PM CDT for Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 1992, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Presidio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KELP 210419 COR SVRELP TXC377-210500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1015 PM MDT (1115 PM CDT) WED MAY 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM MDT(MIDNIGHT CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY AT 1105 PM CDT THE PUBLIC IN MARFA TEXAS REPORTED WINDS OVER 58 MILES AN HOUR AND PEA SIZE HAIL. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING MORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELE4CTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 20, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
NMC013-029-035-TXC141-229-210315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 709 PM MDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 705 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HATCH AND LAS CRUCES IN NEW MEXICO AND FROM EL PASO TO SIERRA BLANCA IN TEXAS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 20, 9:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
NMC013-029-035-TXC141-229-210315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 820 PM MDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 820 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED FROM NEAR HATCH TO SOUTH OF OROGRANDE IN NEW MEXICO AND FROM EL PASO TO SIERRA BLANCA IN TEXAS. STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 20, 10:42 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
NMC013-029-035-TXC141-229-210315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 940 PM MDT 1040 PM CDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 935 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... SCATTERED OVER EL PASO...HUDSPETH....CULBERSON...JEFF DAVIS...PRESIDIO AND BREWSTER COUNTIES IN TEXAS AND LUNA...DONA ANA AND OTERO COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO. STORMS ARE MOVING NORT AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR IN NEW MEXICO AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR IN TEXAS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
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.