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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 29, 1992Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1992, 1:56 AM CDT for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1992, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1992, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Navarro County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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

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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, 9:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 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, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant63 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

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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.