Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1992, 9:16 PM CDT for Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1992, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1992, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 1, 3:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ036-037-012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 400 PM CDT MON JUN 01 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MILAM...BURLESON... LEE...BASTROP AND FAYETTE CO!UNTIES... AT 355 PM...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... FROM FLATONIA TO HOUSTON AND LUFKIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. LUNA
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ036-037-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 355 PM CDT MON JUN 01 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MILAM...BURLESON... LEE...BA%STROP AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... AT 355 PM...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... FROM FLATONIA TO HOUSTON AND LUFKIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. LUN
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 4:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ030-034>036-012240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 440 PM CDT MON JUN 01 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EASTERN LLANO COUNTY... AT 435 PM...RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY BETWEEN LAKE BUCHANAN...MARBLE FALLS AND LLANO. OTHER STORMS HAD FORMED JUST EAST OF SAN ANGELO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG W INDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ON LAKE BUCHANAN SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND OR WARNINGS. LUNA
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
TXZ035-039-040-020230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 725 PM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR BANDERA...COMAL... GUADALUPE...GONZALES...KENDALL...KERR AND REAL COUNTIES. SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA. AT THIS TIME...NO WEATHER OF CONSEQUENCE IS OCCURRING IN THE ABOVE- MENTIONED COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ARE INDICATED BY RADAR TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF AUSTIN AND TO THE WEST OF DEL RIO. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOP IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA THIS EVENING...SO PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATIONS FOR THE VERY LATEST IN WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. REMEMBER...BESIDES CONTAINING LQARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WIND AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH CAN CAUSE FLASH FLOODING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE IF ANY ADVANCE WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 12:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 108 min |
| Jun 2, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | La Salle | 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.