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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 12, 1992Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1992, 5:04 PM CDT for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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 12, 1992, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Coryell County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 12, 5:40 PM CDTHail 1Coryell, 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 301 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
391 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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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 12, 12:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 12, 4:26 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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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 WarningFWDDelta, Fannin, Hunt61 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 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

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.