Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 3, 1992Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 6:00 PM CST for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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
Mar 3, 1992, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 1992, 7:00 PM CST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kinney County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 3, 6:50 PM CSTHail 1.75Kinney, 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1920 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1920 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
3.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, Mar 3, 5:29 PM CST, 31 minutes before
TXZ034-035-038-039-041-040600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
528 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992

...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT...

A VIGOROUS UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IS MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST U. S.
TOWARD SOUTH TEXAS.  THIS STORM SYSTEM HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR RAIN IN
THE NORMALLY-DRY DESERT AREAS...WITH SNOW IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF
CALIFORNIA...NEVADA...ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.

AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES TOWARD SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT INTO ABUNDANT
LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING.  THE NATIONAL SEVERE
STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS DETERMINED THAT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN PARTS OF SOUTH CNNTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT.  THIS MEANS THAT LARGE HAIL
...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
MAY OCCUR...AS WELL AS THE THREAT OF TORNADOES.  IF SEVERE WEATHER IS
IMMINENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO WATCHES OR WARNINGS WILL BE
ISSUED ALERTING YOU OF APPROACHING OR DEVELOPING WEATHER.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE EDWARDS PLATEAU...
INCLUDING THE CITY OF DEL RIO...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 PM THIS EVENING.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR GREATER
IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.  REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN AND DO OCCUR IN
THUNDERSTORMS...AND CAN STRIKE WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING.

IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD AND FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT
ALONG AND NORTH OF A PALACIOS-BEEVILLE-EAGLE PASS LINE.  ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 5 INCHES COULD OCCUR BEFORE THE STORMS
MOVE OUT OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY.

PERSONS THROUGHOUT SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR RADIO...TV
OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO BROADCASTS DURING THE NIGHT.  ALTHOUGH IT IS STILL
OFFICIALLY WINTER...THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE SEVERE SPRING-LIKE
WEATHER...SO KEEP ALERT AND INFORMED.

ADDITIONAL BULLETINS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED BY SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICES CONCERNING THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 6:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Mar 3, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal59 min
Mar 3, 6:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Kerr2 hr
Mar 3, 7:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney, Uvalde55 min
Mar 3, 7:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Mar 3, 8:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde41 min
Mar 3, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXZavala57 min
Mar 3, 8:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb56 min
Mar 3, 9:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio58 min
Mar 3, 9:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar4 hr
Mar 3, 10:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Mar 3, 10:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar65 min
Mar 3, 10:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop35 min
Mar 3, 10:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette, Lee43 min
Mar 3, 10:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilson58 min
Mar 4, 12:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Comal, Kendall, Kerr6 hr
Mar 4, 12:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal6 hr
Mar 4, 2:17 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXMedina, Uvalde6 hr
Mar 4, 3:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Hays3 hr
Mar 4, 3:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal50 min
Mar 4, 5:26 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Travis, Williamson4 hr
Mar 4, 5:26 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Caldwell, Hays4 hr
Mar 4, 4:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet58 min
Mar 4, 4:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis, Williamson62 min
Mar 4, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.