Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 552, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1992, 3:55 PM CST for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Oct 29, 1992, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 1992, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 4:12 PM CST | Hail 1 | Wood, TX | |
| Oct 29, 4:42 PM CST | Hail 1 | Wood, 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, Oct 29, 11:55 AM CST, 4 hours before
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</html>Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:26 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
TXZ021>023-026>028-032-033-292130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 225 PM CST OCT 29 1992 AT 220 PM...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED DEVELOPING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE EASTERN PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY TO TERRELL AND TO NEAR EMORY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR TERRELL AND JUST SOUTH OF LAKE TAWAKONI. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST HENDERSON COUNTY NEAR BROWNSBORO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT AND IN AN AREA OF INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FO\R LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:47 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TXZ031-292145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 246 PM CST THU OCT 29 1992 AT 240 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR GEORGETOWN TO NORTHEAST OF CORSICANA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NORTHEAST OF GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY AND NEAR VALLEY MILLS ON THE MCLENNAN/BOSQUE COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING WILL COMBINE WITH A WARM...MOIST... UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD STAY ABREST OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:51 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
TXZ031-292145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 246 PM CST THU OCT 29 1992 AT 240 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR GEORGETOWN TO NORTHEAST OF CORSICANA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NORTHEAST OF GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY AND NEAR VALLEY MILLS ON THE MCLENNAN/BOSQUE COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE WEST WILL COMBINE WITH A WARM...MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD STAY ABREST OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 3:40 PM CST, 15 minutes before
TXZ019>033-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NORTH TEXAS WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 335 PM CST OCT 29 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM CST. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE STEPHENVILLE...HAMILTON...WACO...WAXAHACHIE... FAIRFIELD...JACKSONVILLE...CARTHAGE...LONGVIEW...MT PLEASANT... QUITMAN...CANTON....TERRELL AND DALLAS/FORT WORTH. AT 325 PM...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN SULPHUR SPRINGS AND QUITMAN TO NEAR EMORY TO TERRELL AND TO NEAR WAXAHACHIE. THE STRONGEST STORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WERE DEVELOPING AND REDEVELOPING FROM NEAR TERRELL AND EMORY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL TEXAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN CORSICANA AND WACO...WHILE A DEVELOPING STORM WAS BETWEEN COOPER AND MT VERNON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. A WEAK AND SHALLOW COLD FRONT WAS SLOWLY MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. THIS FRONT EXTENDED FROM NEAR BONHAM TO NEAR JUST EAST OF DALLAS AND FARTHER SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF WACO AND WESTWARD TO THE HILL COUNTRY. MUCH OF THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WAS ALONG AND JUST TO THE EAST OF THE WEAK FRONT. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUED TO INCREASE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT FUELING THE THUNDERSTORMS. SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER THE GREATER PART OF NORTH TEXAS. THE WINDS WERE SOUTHERLY AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...WHILE WEST TO NORTHWESTERLY WINDS PREVAILED BEHIND THE FRONT. WIND SPEEDS WERE MAINLY IN THE 5 TO 15 MILE AN HOUR RANGE. GUSTY WINDS WERE IN AND NEAR THE VICINITY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. AT 3 PM...TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 70S TO THE MID 80S IN THOSE AREAS NEAR AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WHILE 60S TO THE MID 70S WERE COMMON BEHIND. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Shackelford, Taylor | 64 min |
| Oct 29, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wood | 30 min |
| Oct 29, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Upshur | 63 min |
| Oct 29, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 65 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.