Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1992, 10:57 PM CDT for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1992, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 1420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 130402 SVRAUS TXC051-130430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1057 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BURLESON COUNTY AT 11 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF CALDWELL. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HIGH WINDS. WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH MILAM COUNTY BEFORE 1030 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUNR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, May 12, 7:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ041-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 725 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 AT 725 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COTULLA...WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT INDICATED. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND... SOME HAIL AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING IN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. PERSONS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY 624 SOUTHEAST OF COTULLA COULD LIKELY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Special weather statement, May 12, 8:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ030-034-035-036-037-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 759 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HAYS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 754 PM...RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NORTH OF DRIPPING SPRINGS. THIS STORM HAS SHOWN LITTLE MOVEMENT AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN THE VICINITY OF WACO AND EAST OF TEMPLE. PERSONS PLANNING TRAVEL NORTH ON I-35 MAY WANT TO DELAY TRAVEL AS THE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCAL FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, May 12, 8:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
845 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992
TIME COUNTY EVENT OF MAY 12TH
1630 WILLIAMSON GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT LEANDER AND HWY 183
(LEANDER POLICE)
1650 WILLIAMSON DIME SIZED HAIL AT LEANDER(HAMS)
1700 WILLIAMSON GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT LEANDER(TV-24)
1705 TRAVIS 1/4" HAIL AT OAK HILL(HAMS)
1711 TRAVIS 1/2" HAIL AT OAK HILL(HAMS)
1732 TRAVIS 1/2-1" HAIL 2 MILES SOUTH OF BEE CAVES(PIREP/HAMS)
1745 TRAVIS NEAR GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL 6 MILES SOUTH OF HWY 290
(HAMS)
1755 TRAVIS 3.5" RAIN TOTAL AT OAK HILL AND REPORT THAT 1/2 -1"
HAIL LASTED FIOR 45 MINUTES(HAMS)
1759 HAYS PEA TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OAK
HILL IN HAYS COUNTY(HAMS)
1816 HAYS 1/2-3/4" HAIL NEAR DRIFTWOOD(HAMS)
HOHMANNSpecial weather statement, May 12, 8:57 PM CDT, 2 hours before
TXZ041-130330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 857 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COTULLA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND... SOME HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS OVER PORTIONS OF LA SALLE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF COTULLA AND EAST OF ARTESIA WELLS. PERSONS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY 624 SOUTHEAST OF COTULLA COULD LIKELY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Special weather statement, May 12, 8:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
TXZ030-034-035-036-037-130300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 855 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MILLS...SAN SABA...LAMPASAS... LLANO...BURNET...GILLESPIE...BLANCO...WILLIAMSON...TRAVIS... HAYS...CALDWELL...BASTROP...LEE AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MILAM AND BURLESON COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM... AT 850 PM...RADAR SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT PREICIPITATION IN OR AROUND AUSTIN. HOWEVER...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO THE NORTH IN THE AREA FROM TEMPLE TO WACO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO MILAM COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILE AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING.
Special weather statement, May 12, 10:39 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
TXZ036>037-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 1035 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WILLIAMSON...TRAVIS... CALDWELL...MILAM...LEE...BASTROP...FAYETTE AND BURLESON COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MILAM COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 1030 PM...RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROCKDALE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF COLLEGE STATION. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. A TREE WAS UPROOTED NORTH OF ROCKDALE AND BLOCKING FARM AND MARKET ROAD 1712. OTHER REPORTS OF SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH VERY HIGH WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Milam | 49 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.