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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 28, 1992Brown County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1992, 5:04 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1992, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1465 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABI 282204
TORABI
TXC049-282300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE 
504 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH PART OF TEXAS
      BROWN

AT 500 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF
CROSS CUT IN NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST
15 MILES AN HOUR.

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.

IF YOU SEE A TORNADO...ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 5:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant52 min
Jun 28, 5:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin69 min
Jun 28, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
Jun 28, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland59 min
Jun 28, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman63 min
Jun 28, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown56 min
Jun 28, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland58 min
Jun 28, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHardeman58 min
Jun 28, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell55 min
Jun 28, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton62 min
Jun 28, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHardeman60 min
Jun 28, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis57 min
Jun 28, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson48 min
Jun 28, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFoard, Wilbarger62 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.