Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 1992, 7:17 PM CST for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- Mar 3, 1992, 7:17 PM CST (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coleman County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Coleman, 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KABI 040117
TORABI
TXC083-040215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE
717 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTH PART OF TEXAS
COLEMAN
AT 713 PM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED REPORTED A
TORNADO ON THE EAST SIDE OF COLEMAN AT ABOUT 650 PM. THE TORNADO
DAMAGED 1 HOME. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE
NORTHERN HALF OF COLEMAN COUNTY.
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 BUZILDING.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, Mar 3, 2:36 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 230 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD AND FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 226 PM CST RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL TEXAS. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM LOCATED IN ARIZONA WILL MOVE TOWARD TEXAS TONIGHT...THIS SYSTEM WILL INTERACT WITH MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO TO PRODUCE MORE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE AND CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING EXISTS IN THE INDICATED AREA. CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND MOVE TO HIGHER < GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 7:17 PM CST, 0 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-040215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 714 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CST FOR BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 709 PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. ELSEWHERE A LINE OF STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF FORT WORTH TO JUST WEST OF BROWNWOOD. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE STATE AND INTERACTS WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO < DEVELOP. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS SITUATION. WITH THE GROUND AT OR NEAR SATURATION FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS ARE URGED TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGH TONIGHT ON THIS POTEXNTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 6:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan | 56 min |
| Mar 3, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 66 min |
| Mar 3, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 63 min |
| Mar 3, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 69 min |
| Mar 3, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 4:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 7:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Somervell | 45 min |
| Mar 4, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Mar 4, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 26 min |
| Mar 4, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 67 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.