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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 11, 1992Delta County, Fannin County, Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1992, 8:44 PM CDT for Delta County, Fannin County, Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 2 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
May 11, 1992, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Hunt County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 11, 8:50 PM CDTTornado F1Hunt, TX
May 11, 9:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Fannin, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 11, 2:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 11, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ019>033-112145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
340 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 330 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  THE ACTIVITY
WAS ALONG A LINE FROM THE RED RIVER NEAR SHERMAN SOUTHWEST TO
DECATUR...STEPHENVILLE...AND GOLDTHWAITE.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NORTH OF THE RED RIVER IN LOVE AND MARSHALL
COUNTIES.  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LOVE AND
MARSHALL COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM.  UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL... HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM IS THREATENING THE NORTHWEST PART OF LAKE TEXOMA.  BOATERS
SHOULD LEAVE THE WATER IMMEDIATELY.

MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS EAST-NORTHEAST  AT 25 TO 30 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR THAT PART OF NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO HILLSBORO TO
COLEMAN TO HENRIETTA. CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE SHERMAN...
DECATUR...WEATHERFORD... MINERAL WELLS...STEPHENVILLE...CLEBURNE...
WAXAHACHIE...AND THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 800 PM.
THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE OKLAHOMA COUNTIES OF BRYAN...CARTER...CHOCTAW...
JOHNSON...LOVE...AND MARSHALL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 11, 3:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 11, 4:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
TXZ031-112245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
442 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BOSQUE AND HILL
COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 426 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO
EXTREME WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY.  THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
10 MILES EAST OF EVANT TO EAST OF GOLDTHWAITE.  THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORM WAS ON THE CORYELL COUNTY LINE NEAR EVANT.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST
WISE COUNTY NEAR DECATUR.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN CORYELL COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.  PERSONS IN BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIESHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ON THE ALERT TO THE POSSIBLITY OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 11, 4:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 11, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-120035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
635 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CORYELL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...
BRAZOS...FALLS...CORYELL...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE...MADISON...
MCLENNAN...AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS...

AT 628 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER
CORYELL COUNTY OF CENTRAL TEXAS.  THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GATESVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GATESVILLE.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN CORYELL COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RQAIN
...STRONG GUSTY WINDS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL.  PERSONS IN
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY
OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRockwall40 min
May 11, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar61 min
May 11, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin60 min
May 11, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell67 min
May 11, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt, Red River63 min
May 11, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall63 min
May 11, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin68 min
May 11, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt, Wood68 min
May 11, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Franklin, Morris, Titus68 min
May 11, 8:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Hunt5 hr
May 11, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell63 min
May 11, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins61 min
May 11, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRains25 min
May 11, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRains, Wood63 min
May 11, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall58 min
May 11, 9:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins4 hr
May 11, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Franklin, Hopkins64 min
May 11, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur64 min
May 11, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith, Wood56 min
May 11, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman, Rockwall61 min
May 11, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains61 min
May 11, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin61 min
May 11, 10:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin3 hr
May 11, 10:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMorris3 hr
May 11, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith61 min
May 11, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman48 min
May 11, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt, Wood63 min
May 12, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Wood40 min
May 12, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith53 min
May 12, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton41 min
May 12, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell56 min
May 12, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill56 min
May 12, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker29 min
May 12, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson64 min
May 12, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell62 min
May 12, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill59 min
May 12, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis63 min
May 12, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.