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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 4, 1992Comal County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 1992, 3:55 AM CST for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 1992, 3:55 AM CST (09:55 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 1992, 4:45 AM CST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Comal County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 570 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Mar 3, 11:48 PM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1145 PM CST TUE MAR 03 1992

         STORM SYSTEM TUESDAY...3/03/1992...

TIME   COUNTY      EVENT
2110   MILLS       MARBLE TO 3/4 INCH HAIL NEAR GOLDTHWAITE AS REPORTED
                   BY THE MILLS COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE.
2230   FAYETTE     WIND GUST TO 60 MPH NEAR CISTERN AS REPORTED BY TV-24
                   WEATHER WATCHER.
2240   BASTROP     SMITHVILLE POLICE REPORTED 3/4 INCH TO A FEW GOLFBALL
                   SIZE HAILSTONES IN THE CITY OF SMITHVILLE WITH 40 TO
                   50 MPH WINDS.

LUNA
.END

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 6:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney60 min
Mar 3, 6:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Mar 3, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXReal59 min
Mar 3, 6:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Kerr2 hr
Mar 3, 7:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney, Uvalde55 min
Mar 3, 7:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Mar 3, 8:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde41 min
Mar 3, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXZavala57 min
Mar 3, 8:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb56 min
Mar 3, 9:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio58 min
Mar 3, 9:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar4 hr
Mar 3, 10:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde55 min
Mar 3, 10:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar65 min
Mar 3, 10:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop35 min
Mar 3, 10:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette, Lee43 min
Mar 3, 10:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilson58 min
Mar 4, 12:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Comal, Kendall, Kerr6 hr
Mar 4, 12:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal6 hr
Mar 4, 2:17 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXMedina, Uvalde6 hr
Mar 4, 3:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Hays3 hr
Mar 4, 5:26 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Travis, Williamson4 hr
Mar 4, 5:26 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Caldwell, Hays4 hr
Mar 4, 4:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet58 min
Mar 4, 4:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis, Williamson62 min
Mar 4, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.