Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 11, 1992, 5:49 PM CST for Burnet County, Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 1992, 5:49 PM CST (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 1992, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burnet County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 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 112350 SVRAUS TXC053-453-491-120045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 549 PM CST TUE FEB 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN BURNET COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN TRAVIS COUNTY ...WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY JUST BEFORE 6PM...RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...NOW OVER THE BURNET/WILLIAMSON COUNTY LINE TO BE MOVING TO THE SOUTH VERY SLOWLY. IT SHOULD REACH TO NEAR LIBERTY HILL AND TO JUST NORTH OF LAKE TRAVIS BY 630 PM. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN CONFINED TO ABOUT A 10 MILE DIAMETER AREA LOCATED JUST TO THE NORTHEAST AND EAST OF BERTRAM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOV\E TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 11:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 1:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 63 min |
| Feb 11, 2:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 57 min |
| Feb 11, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 55 min |
| Feb 11, 4:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 59 min |
| Feb 11, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burleson | 68 min |
| Feb 11, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 68 min |
| Feb 11, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 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.