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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1992, 10:47 PM CDT for Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1992, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1992, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grayson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 2037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 030347 TORFTW TXC181-030415- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1047 PM CDT WED SEP 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GRAYSON COUNTY AT 1040 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING A MILE OR 2 EAST OF THE GRAYSON COUNTY AIRPORT. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR SHERMAN AND AREAS EAST OF SHERMAN SHOULD TAKE SHELTER! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 55 min |
| Sep 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 60 min |
| Sep 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 60 min |
| Sep 2, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton, Fannin | 62 min |
| Sep 2, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 42 min |
| Sep 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 58 min |
| Sep 3, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Rockwall | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 59 min |
| Sep 3, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Van Zandt | 70 min |
| Sep 3, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains | 70 min |
| Sep 3, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 56 min |
| Sep 3, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 37 min |
| Sep 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 56 min |
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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.