Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 1992, 4:15 PM CST for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 29, 1992, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 1992, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 4:42 PM CST | Hail 1 | Wood, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 292217 TORFTW TXC499-292245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 415 PM CST THU OCT 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...WOOD COUNTY AT 4:15 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR QUITMAN. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS NEAR QUITMAN SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED BY SPOTTERS AT 4:15 PM CST. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH O\R 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 29, 2:26 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
TXZ021>023-026>028-032-033-292130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 225 PM CST OCT 29 1992 AT 220 PM...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED DEVELOPING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE EASTERN PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY TO TERRELL AND TO NEAR EMORY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR TERRELL AND JUST SOUTH OF LAKE TAWAKONI. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST HENDERSON COUNTY NEAR BROWNSBORO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT AND IN AN AREA OF INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FO\R LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:47 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ031-292145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 246 PM CST THU OCT 29 1992 AT 240 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR GEORGETOWN TO NORTHEAST OF CORSICANA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NORTHEAST OF GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY AND NEAR VALLEY MILLS ON THE MCLENNAN/BOSQUE COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING WILL COMBINE WITH A WARM...MOIST... UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD STAY ABREST OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:51 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
TXZ031-292145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 246 PM CST THU OCT 29 1992 AT 240 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR GEORGETOWN TO NORTHEAST OF CORSICANA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NORTHEAST OF GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY AND NEAR VALLEY MILLS ON THE MCLENNAN/BOSQUE COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE WEST WILL COMBINE WITH A WARM...MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD STAY ABREST OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 3:40 PM CST, 35 minutes before
TXZ019>033-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NORTH TEXAS WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 335 PM CST OCT 29 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM CST. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE STEPHENVILLE...HAMILTON...WACO...WAXAHACHIE... FAIRFIELD...JACKSONVILLE...CARTHAGE...LONGVIEW...MT PLEASANT... QUITMAN...CANTON....TERRELL AND DALLAS/FORT WORTH. AT 325 PM...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN SULPHUR SPRINGS AND QUITMAN TO NEAR EMORY TO TERRELL AND TO NEAR WAXAHACHIE. THE STRONGEST STORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WERE DEVELOPING AND REDEVELOPING FROM NEAR TERRELL AND EMORY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL TEXAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN CORSICANA AND WACO...WHILE A DEVELOPING STORM WAS BETWEEN COOPER AND MT VERNON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. A WEAK AND SHALLOW COLD FRONT WAS SLOWLY MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. THIS FRONT EXTENDED FROM NEAR BONHAM TO NEAR JUST EAST OF DALLAS AND FARTHER SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF WACO AND WESTWARD TO THE HILL COUNTRY. MUCH OF THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WAS ALONG AND JUST TO THE EAST OF THE WEAK FRONT. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUED TO INCREASE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT FUELING THE THUNDERSTORMS. SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER THE GREATER PART OF NORTH TEXAS. THE WINDS WERE SOUTHERLY AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...WHILE WEST TO NORTHWESTERLY WINDS PREVAILED BEHIND THE FRONT. WIND SPEEDS WERE MAINLY IN THE 5 TO 15 MILE AN HOUR RANGE. GUSTY WINDS WERE IN AND NEAR THE VICINITY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. AT 3 PM...TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 70S TO THE MID 80S IN THOSE AREAS NEAR AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WHILE 60S TO THE MID 70S WERE COMMON BEHIND. STAY TUNED TO THIS STAT ION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 4:03 PM CST, 12 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 500 PM CST THU NOV 29 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS... AT 350 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME EASTERN HILL COUNTY NORTHEAST OF HILLSBORO AND NEAR HUBBARD. ELSEWHERE...LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST OF HILLSBORO TO SOUTHEAST OF MARLIN. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM NEAR THE BURNET/BELL COUNTY LINE SOUTHWEST OF KILLEEN TO GILLESPIE COUNTY NORTHWEST OF FREDERICKSBURG. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN BELL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. DUE TO THE INTERACTION OF A STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING TEXAS FROM THE WEST... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO xDEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 4:10 PM CST, 5 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 400 PM CST THU NOV 29 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS... AT 350 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME EASTERN HILL COUNTY NORTHEAST OF HILLSBORO AND NEAR HUBBARD. ELSEWHERE...LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN TO SOUTHEAST OF MARLIN. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM NEAR THE BURNET/BELL COUNTY LINE SOUTHWEST OF KILLEEN TO GILLESPIE COUNTY NORTHWEST OF FREDERICKSBURG. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN BELL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. DUE TO THE INTERACTION OF A STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING TEXAS FROM THE WEST... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Shackelford, Taylor | 64 min |
| Oct 29, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wood | 65 min |
| Oct 29, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Upshur | 63 min |
| Oct 29, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 65 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.