Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 1992, 5:57 PM CDT for Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 1992, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kaufman County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 072259 SVRFTW TXC257-080000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 557 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN KAUFMAN COUNTY AT 555 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE DALLAS...ROCKWALL COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING BETWEEN ROCKWALL AND TERRELL BY 615 PM CDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH&...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Oct 7, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ019>033-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 235 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PART OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT. THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM GRAHAM TO GREENVILLE AND INCLUDES THE GAINESVILLE...SHERMAN...DENTON AND MCKINNEY AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DALLAS- FORT WORTH AREA AT THIS TIME. AT 210 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM WICHITA FALLS TO GRAHAM. THIS AREA IS AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THAT WAS PUSHING THROUGH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. INSTABILITIES AND MOISTURE WERE SOMEWHAT LIMITED AHEAD OF THE FRONT... BUT STRONG TURNING OF THE WINDS IN THE VERTICAL WILL PROVIDE A FAVAORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR TORNADIC STORMS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF COOKE-DENTON- AND TARRANT COUNTIES BETWEEN 400 AND 500 PM....AND GRAYSON... COLLIN...AND DALLAS COUNTIES BETWEEN 500 AND 600 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EAST TEXAS AFTER 600 PM. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WINDS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WERE PICKING UP CONSIDERABLE DUST. SOME DUST CAN BE EXPECTED BRIEFLY INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS BEHIND THE FRONT THIS EVENING ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS. LAKE WIND ADVISORIES ARE ALSO IN EFFECT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WILL WANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 3:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ019>033-072300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
335 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
AT 330 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST OF GAINESVILLE TO MINERAL WELLS TO
EAST OF EASTLAND. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY
NEAR SAINT JO.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE
GAINESVILLE AREA...AND INTO WESTERN DENTON...AND PARKER COUNTY AREAS
BY 400 PM...AND INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE METROPLEX BY 430 PM.
THE STRONGER ACTIVITY WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND
POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE NORTHERN PART OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DALLAS/FT.WORTH
METROPLEX.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 51 min |
| Oct 7, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 57 min |
| Oct 7, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 55 min |
| Oct 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 65 min |
| Oct 7, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 69 min |
| Oct 7, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson | 61 min |
| Oct 7, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 61 min |
| Oct 7, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas | 33 min |
| Oct 7, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 23 min |
| Oct 7, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 57 min |
| Oct 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 60 min |
| Oct 7, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 66 min |
| Oct 7, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 66 min |
| Oct 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hunt | 45 min |
| Oct 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 40 min |
| Oct 7, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 61 min |
| Oct 7, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Hopkins | 66 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.