Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Tarrant, TX | |
| Apr 28, 11:21 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Tarrant, TX | |
| Apr 28, 11:30 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Tarrant, TX | |
| Apr 28, 11:40 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Tarrant, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wilbarger | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Coleman | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Baylor | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Clay | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 68 min |
| Apr 29, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 52 min |
| Apr 29, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.