Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 1992, 6:27 PM CDT for Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 1992, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lampasas County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1244 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 072329 SVRAUS TXC281-080015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 627 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...LAMPASAS COUNTY AT 624PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF LAMPASAS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITY OF LAMPASAS AND KEMPNER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...GET INSIDE. DON'T USE TELE- PHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF FLOODED ROADWAYS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Oct 7, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ030-034>036-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 525 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SAN SABA AND MILLS COUNTY... AT 520 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM BRADY TO SAN SABA AND GOLDTHWAITE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO LAMPASAS...LLANO AND BURNET COUNTY BY 615 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ONCE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST AND GUST TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH SOME BLOWING DUST. THE AUSTIN METRO AREA WILL SEE SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AROUND 8 PM. LUNA UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DALLAS/FT.WORTH METROPLEX. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 5:29 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ030-034>036-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 525 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SAN SABA AND MILLS COUNTY... AT 520 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM BRADY TO SAN SABA AND GOLDTHWAITE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO LAMPASAS...LLANO AND BURNET COUNTY BY 615 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ONCE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST AND GUST TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH SOME BLOWING DUST. THE AUSTIN METRO AREA WILL SEE SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AROUND 8 PM. LUNA .
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
TXZ030-034>036-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 620 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR JUST WEST OF LAMPASAS... AT 617 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM LLANO TO ADAMSVILLE AND WACO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STROMS NEAR LAMPASAS MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE STORMS WILL MOVE OVER LAKE BUCHANAN AROUND 645PM AND BURNET AT 715 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ONCE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST AND GUST TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH SOME BLOWING DUST. . THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE AUSTIN METRO AREA AROUND 830 PM. LUNA
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.