Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1992, 3:34 PM CST for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1992, 3:34 PM CST (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1992, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 292136 SVRSAT TXC493-292330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 334 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...WILSON COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH MOVED ACROSS BEXAR AND COUNTY IS MOVING INTO WILSON COUNTY. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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.
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 29, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TXZ036-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 205 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXPLODING SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN... AT 2 PM CDT AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW SEVERE FROM NEAR NEW BRAUNFELS ACROSS SAN ANTONIO TO NEAR HONDO. MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE EAST IS INDICATED. ...PERSONS IN CALDWELL COUNTY SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY HAVE PRODUCED HAIL IN THE SAN ANTIONIO AREA WITHIN THE PAST HOUR AND PRESENT MOVEMENT MAY PLACE THEM OVER PORTIONS OF CALDWELL COUNTY IN THE NEAT HOUR OR SO... PJL
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 2:17 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
TXZ036-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO LAST LINE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 205 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXPLODING SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN... AT 2 PM CDT AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW SEVERE FROM NEAR NEW BRAUNFELS ACROSS SAN ANTONIO TO NEAR HONDO. MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE EAST IS INDICATED. ...PERSONS IN CALDWELL COUNTY SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY HAVE PRODUCED HAIL IN THE SAN ANTIONIO AREA WITHIN THE PAST HOUR AND PRESENT MOVEMENT MAY PLACE THEM OVER PORTIONS OF CALDWELL COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO... PJL
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 2:28 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
TXZ036-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO LAST LINE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 205 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXPLODING SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN... AT 2 PM CDT AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW SEVERE FROM NEAR NEW BRAUNFELS ACROSS SAN ANTONIO TO NEAR HONDO. MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE EAST IS INDICATED. ...PERSONS IN CALDWELL COUNTY SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY HAVE PRODUCED HAIL IN THE SAN ANTIONIO AREA WITHIN THE PAST HOUR AND PRESENT MOVEMENT MAY PLACE THEM OVER PORTIONS OF CALDWELL COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO... PJL
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 3:24 PM CST, 10 minutes before
TXZ035-036-037-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 315 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHERN TEXAS UNTILL 9PM TONIGHT...IT INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF TRAVIS...BLANCO ...WILLIAMSON...BASTROP...FAYETTE...CALDWELL...HAYS...LEE AND MILAM. AT 3 PM AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME SEVERE WITH HAIL...HIGH WIND AND A FEW TORNADOES FROM SOUTH OF SAN MARCOS TO SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO AND OVER TOWARDS SEGUIN. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 15 MPH. ...PERSON IN THE SAN MARCOS AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THESE STORMS AND THERE MOVEMENT FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PASS OVER PORTIONS OF CALDWELL COUNTY IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS... PJL
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, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| 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 |
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.