Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1992, 7:55 PM CST for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1992, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1992, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 65 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, 1.9 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 090200 RRA SVRSAT TXC271-090300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...RETRANSMISSION REQUESTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 755 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...KINNEY COUNTY A SECOND THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY LARGE HAIL HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE CITY OF DEL RIO AND INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST EDGE OF KINNEY COUNTY. THIS STORM AT 752 PM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEL RIO AND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. AT ITS PRESENT MOVEMENT...IT WILL REACH THE CITIES OF BRACKETTVILLE AND SPOFFORD BETWEEN 815 PM AND 830 PM THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.
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, 3:40 PM CST, 4 hours 15 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, 4 hours 9 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, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 67 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
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.