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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 1992, 7:50 PM CDT for Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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 7, 1992, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Titus County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Titus, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 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 KFTW 080052 TORFTW TXC449-080115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 750 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN TITUS COUNTY AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT PLEASANT...NEAR WILKINSON. THE THUNDERSTORM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Oct 7, 2:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ019>033-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 235 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PART OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT. THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM GRAHAM TO GREENVILLE AND INCLUDES THE GAINESVILLE...SHERMAN...DENTON AND MCKINNEY AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DALLAS- FORT WORTH AREA AT THIS TIME. AT 210 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM WICHITA FALLS TO GRAHAM. THIS AREA IS AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THAT WAS PUSHING THROUGH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. INSTABILITIES AND MOISTURE WERE SOMEWHAT LIMITED AHEAD OF THE FRONT... BUT STRONG TURNING OF THE WINDS IN THE VERTICAL WILL PROVIDE A FAVAORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR TORNADIC STORMS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF COOKE-DENTON- AND TARRANT COUNTIES BETWEEN 400 AND 500 PM....AND GRAYSON... COLLIN...AND DALLAS COUNTIES BETWEEN 500 AND 600 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EAST TEXAS AFTER 600 PM. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WINDS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WERE PICKING UP CONSIDERABLE DUST. SOME DUST CAN BE EXPECTED BRIEFLY INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS BEHIND THE FRONT THIS EVENING ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS. LAKE WIND ADVISORIES ARE ALSO IN EFFECT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WILL WANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 3:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ019>033-072300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
335 PM CDT WED OCT 7 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
AT 330 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST OF GAINESVILLE TO MINERAL WELLS TO
EAST OF EASTLAND. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY
NEAR SAINT JO.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE
GAINESVILLE AREA...AND INTO WESTERN DENTON...AND PARKER COUNTY AREAS
BY 400 PM...AND INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE METROPLEX BY 430 PM.
THE STRONGER ACTIVITY WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND
POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE NORTHERN PART OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DALLAS/FT.WORTH
METROPLEX.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 56 min |
| Oct 7, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 53 min |
| Oct 7, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Titus | 53 min |
| Oct 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Smith | 45 min |
| Oct 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Morris | 30 min |
| Oct 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cherokee, Smith | 58 min |
| Oct 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 58 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.