Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 7:30 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 8:25 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 7:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Val Verde, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDRT 040126 SVRDRT TXC465-040230- BULETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 730 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE AT 725 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT LAKE AMISTAD DAM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE LAKE AMISTAD AREA SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..DESTRUCTIVE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY THROUGH TONIGHT...
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, 2 hours 1 minute 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. ADD ITIONAL 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 59 min |
| Mar 3, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 41 min |
| Mar 3, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 57 min |
| Mar 3, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 56 min |
| Mar 3, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 12:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Comal, Kendall, Kerr | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 50 min |
| Mar 4, 5:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Caldwell, Hays | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 60 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.