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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 28, 1992Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1992, 10:42 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 4 reports 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
Apr 28, 1992, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1992, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Tarrant County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 28, 10:55 PM CDTHail 0.88Tarrant, TX
Apr 28, 11:21 PM CDTHail 2.75Tarrant, TX
Apr 28, 11:30 PM CDTHail 2.75Tarrant, TX
Apr 28, 11:40 PM CDTHail 3Tarrant, 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

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 653 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 290343
SVRFTW
TXC439-290445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1042 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...TARRANT COUNTY
 
AT 1041 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHERN
TARRANT COUNTY NEAR ALLIANCE AIRPORT. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20
MPH AND IS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, Apr 28, 5:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-282330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
506 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH
   CENTRAL TEXAS...TO INCLUDE BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM
   CDT TONIGHT...

AT 501 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM CEDAR CREEK RESERVOIR...TO ALONG THE
LEON/HOUSTON COUNTY LINE TO JUST WEST OF TRINITY.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AREA...
RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR RAPILY CHANGING CONDITIONS. THE
ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS IS VERY UNSTABLE...AND WEAK UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCES CONTINUE TO MOVE IN FR4OM THE NORTHWEST WITH THE
UPPER LEVEL FLOW.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST<
IN WEATHER INFORMATION.

07
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ019>033-290400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
515 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992

THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM TONIGHT
FOR MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS BOUNDED BY
CLARKSVILLE AND HENDERSON IN THE EAST AND HENRIETTA AND GLEN ROSE ON
THE WEST.

AREAS INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX...
DENTON...TYLER...LONGVIEW...SHERMAN...AND PARIS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...HAD DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. THESE
STORMS WERE TRACKING GENERALLY TO THE SOUTHEAyST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
SHOULD THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINTAIN THEIR INTENSITY...THEY WILL
MOVE INTO THE RED RIVER AREA EARLY THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-280045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
635 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES WILL BE
   CANCELLED AT 700 PM CDT...

AT 626 PM CDT RAINFALL WAS NO LONGER OVER ANY PORTION OF CENTRAL OR
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST TEXAS.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE WACO OFFICE
UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS OR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL REDEVELOPS...OR MOVES INTO
THE AREA.

07
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-280045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
635 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES WILL BE
   CANCELLED AT 700 PM CDT...

AT 626 PM CDT RAINFALL WAS NO LONGER OVER ANY PORTION OF CENTRAL OR
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST TEXAS.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE WACO OFFICpE
UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS OR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL REDEVELOPS...OR MOVES INTO
THE AREA.

07
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 7:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ019>033-290500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
700 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992

...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST
   TEXAS...

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHWEST TEXAS...INCLUDING THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...
UNTIL MIDNIGHT.  THIS WATCH REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT.

THE TORNADO WATCH IS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF AN ALBANY TO
KAUFMAN LINE.  THIS INCLUDES THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...
AS WELL AS WICHITA FALLS AND SHERMAN.

AT 655 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING JUST EAST OF WICHITA
FALLS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE DALLAS/
FORT WORTH AREA.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN THE NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS AREA...DUE TO A WARM FRONT STRETCHING FROM LUFKIN TO FORT WORTH
TO WICHITA FALLS...AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE.  NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT
IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ENHANCE SEVERE WEATHER...AND CAUSE THE
THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE IN A SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM TEXARKANA TO PARIS...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND
WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 9:52 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-290400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
951 PM CDT TUE APR 28 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL
3 AM CDT.

AT 945 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF FORT WORTH AREA.
OTHER SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM MESQUITE TO WEATHERFORD AND FROM COMANCHE
TO BROWNWOOD. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS STORM MAY EFFECT HILL COUNTY BY 1015 PM.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTH TEXAS...A SURFACE
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WAS BRINGING SOUTHERLY WINDS AND A INCREASINGLY
UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION.

RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES ACROSS THE AREA. <

TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY YUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague63 min
Apr 28, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise58 min
Apr 28, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan45 min
Apr 28, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Tarrant63 min
Apr 28, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise43 min
Apr 28, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWilbarger55 min
Apr 28, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker, Tarrant32 min
Apr 28, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Coleman52 min
Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson33 min
Apr 28, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague32 min
Apr 28, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson66 min
Apr 28, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBaylor23 min
Apr 28, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman52 min
Apr 28, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDClay62 min
Apr 28, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton45 min
Apr 28, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill60 min
Apr 28, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague67 min
Apr 28, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan58 min
Apr 28, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman27 min
Apr 28, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis43 min
Apr 28, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson43 min
Apr 28, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls44 min
Apr 28, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise48 min
Apr 29, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson61 min
Apr 29, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis45 min
Apr 29, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Tarrant68 min
Apr 29, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas57 min
Apr 29, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro51 min
Apr 29, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill52 min
Apr 29, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson49 min
Apr 29, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone50 min
Apr 29, 1:48 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDEllis42 min
Apr 29, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill65 min
Apr 29, 1:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.