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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 461, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 2, 1992Wichita County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1992, 5:09 PM CDT for Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 1992, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1992, 6:05 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wichita County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1040 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.0

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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, Aug 2, 11:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

TXZ023-027-028-032-033-021800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1200 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992

AT 12 NOON...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
NORTHEAST TEXAS.  THE STORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF A CLARKSVILLE...
QUITMAN AND ATHENS LINE AND NORTH OF AN ATHENS...LUFKIN AND HEMPHILL
LINE.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE TYLER AND LONGVIEW AREA.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...TOWARDS THE LOUISIANA BORDER.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS.  HOWEVER...NO
SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED AS OF 1200 AM WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS.

THOSE PLANNING OUTDOORL ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES AS
CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 12:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

TXZ023-027-028-032-033-021800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED TIME IN 2ND PARAGRAPH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1200 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992

AT 12 NOON...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
NORTHEAST TEXAS.  THE STORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF A CLARKSVILLE...
QUITMAN AND ATHENS LINE AND NORTH OF AN ATHENS...LUFKIN AND HEMPHILL
LINE.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE TYLER AND LONGVIEW AREA.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...TOWARDS THE LOUISIANA BORDER.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS.  HOWEVER...NO
SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED AS OF 1200 PM WITH THESE`
THUNDERSTORMS.

THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES AS
CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

TXZ023-027-028-032-033-021900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
100 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992

AT 1 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
NORTHEAST TEXAS.  THE STORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF A BOSTON...MOUNT
PLEASANT...PALESTINE LINE AND NORTH OF A PALESTINE...LUFKIN...
HEMPHILL LINE.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...TOWARDS THE
LOUISIANA BORDER.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS.  THESE STORMS WILL
MOVE INTO THE CITIES OF PITTSBURG...DANGERFIELD...LINDEN AND MARSHALL
WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES AS
CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:22 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:32 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 1:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Upshur	118 min
Aug 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	61 min
Aug 2, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	69 min
Aug 2, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wichita	58 min
Aug 2, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor	58 min
Aug 2, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	48 min
Aug 2, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	59 min
Aug 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Archer	65 min
Aug 2, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	58 min
Aug 2, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	64 min
Aug 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	60 min
Aug 2, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	64 min
Aug 2, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	59 min
Aug 2, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	59 min
Aug 2, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	48 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.