Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1992, 7:50 PM CST for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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, 7:50 PM CST (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1992, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Atascosa County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:57 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Atascosa, 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 300151 SVRSAT TXC013-300215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 750 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...SOUTHERN ATASCOSA COUNTY HONDO RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN ATASCOSA COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT PLEASANTON. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDnING...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS A TORNADO.
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
Local storm report, Mar 29, 4:23 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
421 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992
DATE TIME
29 138PM 1/4 HAIL WOODS OF SHAVANO PK NORTHWEST PORTION SAN ANTONIO
29 230PM 1/2 INCH HAIL WOODS OF SHAVANO PK NORTHWEST PART OF SAN ANTONIO
29 230PM 1/4 - 1/2 HAIL BANDERA
29 233PM TORNADO OBSERVED BY SAT WSFO 15 MILES W OF AIRPORT
29 235PM 1 INCH HAIL ELDORADO SUB. NORTHEAST OF SAN ANTONIO
29 236PM 1/4 INCH HAIL NORTHWEST SAN ANTONIO BABCOCK OUT SIDE LOOP 410
29 240PM FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE VICINITY OF AIRPORT
29 242PM FUNNEL CLOUD OBSERVED BY WSFO SAN ANTONIO 7 SOUTHWEST OF
AIRPORT
29 240PM 3/4 HAIL BETWEEN WINDCREST AND LIVE OAK NORTHEAST OF SAN
ANTONIO
29 253PM 1/4 HAIL SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT
29 320PM 60 SQUARE FEET OF ROOF BLOWN OF BUILDING AT RANDOLPH AFB
NORTHEAST OF SAN ANTONIO
MORE REPORTS LIKLEYLocal storm report, Mar 29, 4:29 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
424 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992
DATE TIME ....BEXAR COUNTY REPORTS....
29 138PM 1/4 HAIL WOODS OF SHAVANO PK NORTHWEST PORTION SAN ANTONIO.
29 230PM 1/2 INCH HAIL WOODS OF SHAVANO PK NORTHWEST PART OF SAN ANTONIO.
29 230PM 1/4 - 1/2 HAIL BANDERA.
29 233PM TORNADO OBSERVED BY SAT WSFO 15 MILES W OF AIRPORT.
29 235PM 1 INCH HAIL ELDORADO SUB. NORTHEAST OF SAN ANTONIO.
29 236PM 1/4 INCH HAIL NORTHWEST SAN ANTONIO BABCOCK OUT SIDE LOOP 410.
29 240PM FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE VICINITY OF AIRPORT.
29 242PM FUNNEL CLOUD OBSERVED BY WSFO SAN ANTONIO 7 SOUTHWEST OF
AIRPORT.
29 240PM 3/4 HAIL BETWEEN WINDCREST AND LIVE OAK NORTHEAST OF SAN
ANTONIO.
29 250PM ROOF TAKEN OFF BY TORNADO AT GILBEAU/TEZEL RDS 15 WEST OF
SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT.
29 253PM 1/4 HAIL SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT.
29 320PM 60 SQUARE FEET OF ROOF BLOWN OF BUILDING AT RANDOLPH AFB
NORTHEAST OF SAN ANTONIO.Special weather statement, Mar 29, 5:03 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ035-036-037-300100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 5 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 450 PM AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF MOSTLY SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM EAST OF SAN ANTONIO TO FLATONIA TO EAST OF LAGRANGE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF FLORESVILLE AND EAST OF NIXON. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE AUSTIN AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS EVEN NOW THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW WELL TO THE ShOUTH OF AUSTIN AND MOVING TOWARDS SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. PJL
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 5:29 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ035-036-037-300100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 520 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHERN TEXAS TEXAS UNTILL 9 PM TONIGHT...IT NOW ONLY INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF BASTROP...FAYETTE...CALDWELL AND LEE COUNTIES IN THE AUSTIN AREA. AT 450 PM AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF MOSTLY SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM EAST OF SAN ANTONIO TO FLATONIA TO EAST OF LAGRANGE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF FLORESVILLE AND EAST OF NIXON. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. BLANCO...HAYS...TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON AND MILAM COUNTIES. PJL
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 6:20 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
TXZ035-036-037-300100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 615 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS CANCELLED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 104 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHERN TEXAS. AT 610 PM AUSTIN RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO...THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS IN A LINE OF MOSTLY LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS THAT EXTENDED EASTWARD TO NEAR SEALY. THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THIS AREA HAS DECREASED RAPIDLY DURING THE LAST HOUR. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 7:49 PM CST, 1 minute before
TXZ039-300300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 744 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER WESTERN BEXAR COUNTY... HONDO RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER NORTHWEST BEXAR COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 7:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | McMullen | 49 min |
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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.