Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 10:27 PM CST for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1992, 10:27 PM CST (04:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tarrant County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 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
- 1381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 040427 SVRFTW TXC439-040530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1027 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...TARRANT COUNTY AT 1025 PM AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS REPORTED 60 MPH WINDS IN SOUTHWEST FORT WORTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THESE WINDS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Mar 3, 7:17 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-040215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 714 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CST FOR BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 709 PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. ELSEWHERE A LINE OF STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF FORT WORTH TO JUST WEST OF BROWNWOOD. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE STATE AND INTERACTS WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO < DEVELOP. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS SITUATION. WITH THE GROUND AT OR NEAR SATURATION FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS ARE URGED TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGH TONIGHT ON THIS POTEXNTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 8:27 PM CST, 2 hours before
TXZ031-032-037-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 825 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CST FOR BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 815 PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. ELSEWHERE...A LINE OF STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF FORT WORTH...TO GOLDTHWAIT... TO JUST WEST OF AUSTIN. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER WAS NOT NOTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...< THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST OF CENTRAL TEXAS WILL BE AFFECTING THE WESTERN PARTS OF BELL...BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES AT AROUND 1000 PM. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. DUE TO FAVORBLE ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS...TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE. ALSO...WITH THE GROUND NEAR SATURATION...HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED 0TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BB
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 9:44 PM CST, 43 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-040445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 943 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 930 PM CST RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM STEPHENVILLE GATESVILLE. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS 15 MILES EAST OF HAMILTON. THE TOWNS OF WALNUT SPRINGS...MERIDIAN...AND MORGAN COULD POSSIBLY EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTENING...HAIL AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. OTHER AREAS OF RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.< RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 9:51 PM CST, 36 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-040445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 943 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 930 PM CST RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM STEPHENVILLE TO GATESVILLE. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS 15 MILES EAST OF HAMILTON. THE TOWNS OF WALNUT SPRINGS...MERIDIAN...AND MORGAN COULD POSSIBLY EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTENING...HAIL AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. OTHER AREAS OF RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.< RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 10:02 PM CST, 25 minutes before
TXZ019>033-040500-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TEXAS
1000 PM CST TUE MAR 03 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE METROPLEX...
AT 955 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR CRESSON SOUTH TO NEAR HICO. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH
THE FORT WORTH/DALLAS METROPLEX AREA BETWEEN 1000 AND 1100 PM THIS EVENING.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
PERSONS LIVING IN THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
A TORNADO WATCH AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THIS
EVENING.Special weather statement, Mar 3, 10:25 PM CST, 2 minutes before
TXZ019>033-040600- FLASH FLOOD AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED 2ND PARAGRAPH... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TEXAS 1020 PM CST TUE MAR 03 1992 AT 1015 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM EASTERN PARKER COUNTY TO CRESSON TO GLEN ROSE TO MERIDIAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY CRESSON FIRE DEPARTMENT AT 1010 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE ACROSS TARRANT...JOHNSON...ELLIS...DALLAS AND POSSIBLY DENTON COUNTIES BETWEEN 1015 AND 1115 PM THIS EVENING. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM NORTH OF LONGVIEW TO NEAR DALLAS. THESE WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 4 AM INCLUDING WEATHERFORD...STEPHENVILLE...GRANBURY... HAMILTON...EASTLAND...DALLAS...FORT WORTH AND TERRELL AND TYLER. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 6:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan | 56 min |
| Mar 3, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 7:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 66 min |
| Mar 3, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 69 min |
| Mar 3, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 4:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 7:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Somervell | 45 min |
| Mar 4, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Mar 4, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 26 min |
| Mar 4, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 67 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.