Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 8:27 PM CST for Brown County, Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1992, 8:27 PM CST (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 9:05 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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, Mar 3, 2:36 PM CST, 5 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 230 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD AND FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 226 PM CST RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL TEXAS. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM LOCATED IN ARIZONA WILL MOVE TOWARD TEXAS TONIGHT...THIS SYSTEM WILL INTERACT WITH MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO TO PRODUCE MORE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE AND CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING EXISTS IN THE INDICATED AREA. CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND MOVE TO HIGHER < GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 7:17 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-040215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 714 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CST FOR BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 709 PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. ELSEWHERE A LINE OF STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF FORT WORTH TO JUST WEST OF BROWNWOOD. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE STATE AND INTERACTS WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO < DEVELOP. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS SITUATION. WITH THE GROUND AT OR NEAR SATURATION FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS ARE URGED TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGH TONIGHT ON THIS POTEXNTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 8:27 PM CST, 0 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 825 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CST FOR BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 815 PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. ELSEWHERE...A LINE OF STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF FORT WORTH...TO GOLDTHWAIT... TO JUST WEST OF AUSTIN. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER WAS NOT NOTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...< THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST OF CENTRAL TEXAS WILL BE AFFECTING THE WESTERN PARTS OF BELL...BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES AT AROUND 1000 PM. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. DUE TO FAVORBLE ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS...TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE. ALSO...WITH THE GROUND NEAR SATURATION...HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED 0TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 6:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan | 56 min |
| Mar 3, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 7:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 66 min |
| Mar 3, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 63 min |
| Mar 3, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 69 min |
| Mar 3, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 4:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 7:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Somervell | 45 min |
| Mar 4, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Mar 4, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 26 min |
| Mar 4, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 67 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.