Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1992, 1:45 PM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1992, 1:45 PM CST (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1992, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:35 PM CST | Hail 1 | Bexar, TX | |
| Mar 29, 2:40 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Bexar, TX | |
| Mar 29, 2:50 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Bexar, TX | |
| Mar 29, 3:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Bexar, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 291946 SVRSAT TXC029-292145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 145 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...BEXAR COUNTY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE BUILDING OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. PEA-SIZE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN THESE DEVELOPING STORMS. THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE COUNTY AND THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND A HALF. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 85 min |
| Mar 29, 2:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 2:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 2:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 69 min |
| Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 116 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.