Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 12, 1992, 2:52 PM CST for Upshur County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 1992, 2:52 PM CST (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 1992, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upshur County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 122052 FFWFTW TXC459-122300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 252 PM CST WED FEB 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...UPSHUR COUNTY AT 245 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN UPSHUR COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN A SHORT TIME AND WITH CREEKS AND STREAMS ALREADY HIGH...WILL EASILY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IN ADDITION...3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 243 PM AT BIG SANDY. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Feb 12, 12:08 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ021>023-025>028-030>033-130000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 1210 PM CST WED FEB 12 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THAT PORTION OF NORTH TEXAS NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO MINERAL WELLS TO BROWNWOOD TO AUSTIN TO LUFKIN TO SHREVEPORT. THIS AREA INCLUDES WACO...TYLER/LONGVIEW...TEXARKANA...PARIS...AND THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX. A WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS REMAINED OVER NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... REINFORCED BY SOUTH WINDS. A WEAK COLD FRONT EXTENDED INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTH OF WICHITA FALLS AND A DRYLINE TROUGH EXTENDED NORTH TO SOUTH THROUGH WEST TEXAS. IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE...A WEAK IMPULSE WAS MOVING OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON HELPING TO DEVELOP ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WARM AIR. SOUTHERLY SURFACE WINDS AND STRONGER WESTERLY WINDS ALOFT WILL PROVIDE A FAVORABLE VERTICAL WIND SHEAR ENVIRONMENT FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING AS WELL AS THE SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE DEVELOPMENT. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD STAY INFORMED AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Feb 12, 12:19 PM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ031-121915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1214 PM CST WED FEB 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1208 PM CST NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED FROM SOUTH OF STEPHENVILLE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEBURNE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IN WEST TEXAS COMBINED WITH A WEAK IMPULSE OF INSTABILITY IN THE UPPER LEVELS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE .HAIL. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BE ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER BULLETINS. 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 26 min |
| Feb 12, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 62 min |
| Feb 12, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith, Upshur, Wood | 56 min |
| Feb 12, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 33 min |
| Feb 12, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 57 min |
| Feb 12, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 43 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.