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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1992, 7:35 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1992, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scurry County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 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 KABI 230035
TORABI
TXC415-230130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE
735 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE WEST PART OF TEXAS
NORTHWEST SCURRY
AT 725 PM CDT SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO NORTH OF
FLUVANNA IN SCURRY COUNTY. MOVING SOUTHEAST...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 22, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
TXZ019-020-024-025-029-030-230300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 350 PM CDT THU MAY 21 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE AREA IS LOCATED GENERALLY WEST OF A MONTAGUE TO STEPHENVILLE TO LAMPASAS LINE. MAJOR CITIES INCLUDED THE SLIGHT RISK AREA INCLUDE: ABILENE...BROWNWOOD...AND WICHITA FALLS. THIS AFTERNOON STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER WEST TEXAS ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUDARY THAT EXTENDED AT 330 PM FROM NEAR GAGE OKLAHOMA...TO LUBBUCK...TO HOBBS NEW MEXICO. THIS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL LIKELY PUSH INTO THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS BETWEEN WICHITA FALLS AND CHILDRESS LATER THIS EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS REMAINS QUITE WARM AND HUMID WITH AFTERNOON HEATING RESULTING IN LIFTED INDICES IN -6 TO -10 RANGE. SURFACE DEWPOINTS HAD ALSO WARMED INTO THE MIDDLE 60S WHILE THE BEST MID-LEVEL INSTABILITIES WERE INDICATED OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING DOWNBURSTS OF WIND AND LARGE HAIL IS ANTICIPATED OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED SINCE THE UPPER LEVEL WIND PROFILE LACKS SIGNIFICANT SHEAR AND UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT IS LACKING. EMERGENCY MANAGMENT AGENCIES AND SPOTTERS IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA SHOULD KEEP INFORMED AND BE READY FOR LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION LATER THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
TXZ031-230000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 545 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992 ...FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BETWEEN MCGREGOR AND CRAWFORD SHORT LIVED... AT 532 PM CDT ISOLATED LIGHT RAINSHOWERS WERE BETWEEN HILLSBORO AND ITASCA AND BETWEEN KOSSE AND MARQUEZ. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE WELL TO THE SOUTHEAST OF COLLEGE STATION...NEAR MONTGOMERY...AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTH TEXAS. THE WACO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE DISPATCHED STORM SPOTTERS TO THE CRAWFORD/MCGREGOR AREA AFTER THE PUBLIC REPORT OF THE FUNNEL CLOUD... HOWEVER...NO ADDITIONAL FUNNELS WERE SIGHTED. THE STORM WAS WEAK AND VERY SHORT LIVED...WITH NO DAMAGE REPORTED. THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE WACO OFFICE< UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS OR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL REDEVELOPS. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 25 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.