Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 8:18 PM CST for Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1992, 8:18 PM CST (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Zavala County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 KSAT 040217 SVRSAT TXC507-040315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 818 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...NORTHERN ZAVALA COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN ZAVALA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE dLOOKOUT. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
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 49 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. 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, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.