Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT for Blanco 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
- Jun 28, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blanco County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Blanco, 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 290131 SVRAUS TXC031-290230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 830 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BLANCO COUNTY AT 829 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROUND MOUNTAIN MOVING SLOWLY EAST SOUTHEASTWARD. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE...STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. PERSONS IN ROUND MOUNTAIN AND JOHNSON CITY ARE NEAR THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM AN SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH\ES. 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, 4:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ034-035-039-054-290020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 620 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THAT INCLUDES COMAL COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT FOR KERR AND EDWARDS COUNTIES. THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AT THIS TIME. AT 620 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HONDO INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...OVER CENTRAL TEXAS FROM NEAR LLANO TO SAN SABA AND EXTENDING NORTHWARD. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING BETWEEN JUNCTION AND SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS REMAIN PRIMED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER TONIGHT. THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGIN WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND EVEN TORNADOES EXISTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
TXZ054-290130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 725 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 AT 720 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN MEXICO JUST SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE RIVER ...40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. PERSONS LIVING IN COMSTOCK SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY. BOATERS...FISHERMEN AND CAMPERS ON LAKE AMISTAD AND AREA RIVERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO+...TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
TXZ034-035-039-054-290125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 723 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR KERR AND EDWARDS COUNTIES AND UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR COMAL COUNTY... AT 720 PM CDT...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM BURNET TO LLANO TO MASON...AND FROM BRADY TO MENARD TO NEAR SONORA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO WEST OF COMSTOCK IN VAL VERDE COUNTY...JUST WEST OF THE RIO GRANDE RIVER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE PRODUCING GOLF TO SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL EARLIER THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF HAIL... THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF CAUSING STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND EVEN TORNADOES. IF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ON THEIR PRESENT MOVEMENT...THEY COULD START AFFECTING EDWARDS...KERR...KENDALL...AND COMAL COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 8:08 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
TXZ054-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 808 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM MONDAY MORNING... AT 800 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING 14 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. PUBLIC REPORTED STRONG GUSTY WINDS AT BOX CANYON...20 MILES WNW OF DEL RIO. LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS LAKE AMISTAD AND DEL RIO. BOATERS...FISHERMEN AND CAMPERS ON LAKE AMISTAD AND AREA RIVERS SHOUPLD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 8:24 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
TXZ034-035-038>041-054-290225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 825 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS NOW ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...GENERALLY FROM DEL RIO TO AUSTIN TO BEEVILLE TO COTULLA. THE WATCH INCLUDES BEXAR COUNTY AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. AT 815 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WERE FROM EAST OF JUNCTION TO NEAR JOHNSON CITY...AND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...GOLF TO SOFTBALL SIZE...EARLIER THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF HAIL...THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN KERR AND KENDALL COUNTIES COULD START TO BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR 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, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 68 min |
| Jun 28, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 38 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.