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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 8, 1992Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1992, 6:08 PM CST for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 1992, 6:08 PM CST (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1992, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Kinney County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 8, 1:41 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 3:40 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

TXZ054-082240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX
340 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992

AT 335 PM CST RADAR INDICATED RAINSHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
HAD DEVELOPED IN MEXICO...20 MILES WEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS LAKE AMISTAD...BOATERS AND
FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD AND AREA RIVERS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO
MOVE TO SHORE AND AWAY FROM THE WATER IF THUNDER IS HEARD...LIGHTNING IS
SEEN OR WINDS BEGIN INCREASING.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG SURFACE
WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 3:46 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before

TXZ030-082330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
345 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992

...TORNADO WATCH WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
   AND A SMALL PART OF WEST TEXAS. IT INCLUDES MILLS...SAN SABA
   AND LAMPASAS COUNTIES UNTILL 9 PM CST TONIGHT...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND NORTHEAST
   TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT.  IT TOO INCLUDES MILLS...SAN SABA AND
   LAMPASAS COUNTIES...

AT 340 PM...RADAR SHOWED A FEW SHOWERS NORTHEAST OF WACO AND COLLEGE
STATION...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD STAY ALERT...AS
THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST
TEXAS AND THEY COULD FORM OR MOVE INTO THESE AREAS LATER TONIGHT.
.
REMEMBER...WATCHES MEAN THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR FLASH
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE...IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
JVD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	65 min
Mar 9, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	34 min
Mar 9, 2:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	47 min
Mar 9, 4:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gillespie	48 min
Mar 9, 5:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Llano	32 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.