Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1992, 4:51 PM CDT for Mills County, San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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 28, 1992, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mills County, TX, San Saba County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:07 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mills, TX | |
| Jun 28, 5:52 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | San Saba, 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 282155 COR SVRAUS TXC333-411-282300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIME OF REPORT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 451 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...MILLS COUNTY...SAN SABA COUNTY AT 450 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN SAN SABA COUNTY NEAR ELM GROVE...AND NEAR ZEPHYR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT ELM GROVE AROUND 440 PM. 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, Jun 28, 4:05 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
TXZ030-034>036-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 403 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MILLS...LAMPASAS...SAN SABA... BURNET...BLANCO...HAYS...LLANO...GILLESPIE...WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR MILLS..SAN SABA AND LAMPASAS COUNTIES... AT 358 PM...RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WEST OF STEPHENVILLE TO BROWNWOOD TO MASON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE HILL COUNTRY ARE IN THE IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...AND EVEN TORNADOES AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO. WH
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 4:14 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
TXZ034-035-039-054-290100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 415 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT FOR AN AREA ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUNCTION TO ROCKSPRINGS TO KERRVILLE...AUSTIN AND GEORGETOWN. THE CITIES NAMED ABOVE ARE ALL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA. THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AT THIS TIME. AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING BETWEEN BROWNWOOD AND MASON. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS INDICATED IN MANY OF THE STORMS...AND THEY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS IS VERY UNSTABLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THE APPOACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MUCH OF TONIGHT. THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES EXISTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THIS AREA SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...KEEP SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO SAFETY RULES IN MIND...AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NECESSARY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | San Saba | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Mills | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | San Saba | 26 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.