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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1992, 5:01 PM CST for Baylor County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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 8, 1992, 5:01 PM CST (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1992, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baylor County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Baylor, TX | |
| Mar 8, 5:13 PM CST | Hail 1 | Baylor, 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 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 KSPS 082302 TORSPS TXC023-082330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 501 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA FALLS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHEASTERN BAYLOR COUNTY AT 502 PM CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO SOUTH OF LAKE KEMP. WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED THE SIGHTING OF A FUNNEL CLOUD IN THE SAME VICINITY. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVINMG EAST AT 20 MPH. 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, Mar 8, 11:45 AM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ019>033-090000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 1145 AM CST SUN MAR 08 1992 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NORTH OF A BONHAM-DALLAS-BROWNWOOD-ABILENE-CHILDRESS LINE. FURTHERMORE...ADJACENT TO THIS AREA THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTHWEST OF A TEXARKANA-MARSHALL-CROCKETT LINE. DALLAS-FORT WORTH...SHERMAN-PARIS...AND WICHITA FALLS ARE IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA...WHEREAS TYLER/LONGVIEW IS IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER ARIZONA WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS THROUGH TONIGHT. AT THE SURFACE...THE DISTURBANCE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A DRY LINE... SEPARATING MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR TO THE EAST FROM DRY AIR TO THE WEST. AT NOON...THE DRY LINE EXTENDED FROM SANDERSON...NORTH TO NEAR GAGE OKLAHOMA. SKIES IN WEST WEST TEXAS ARE CLEAR AND BY THE TIME OF MAXIMUM AFTERNOON HEATING...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET STREAM WILL STRETCH ACROSS THE AREA. WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST AT THE SURFACE...AND WILL HAVE FAVORABLE VERTICAL SHEAR (CHANGE OF WIND WITH HEIGHT) FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS LIKELY WILL BECOME SUPERCELL STORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES. THE GREATEST RISK OF TORNADOES WILL BE IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY...THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE. FURTHERMORE...BRIEF...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY FALL IN CENTRAL SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A BETTER CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH POSSIBLE 2 TO 3 INCH AMOUNTS...APPEARS LIKELY FOR THE EASTERN 1/3 OF NORTH TEXAS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS THROUGHOUT NORTH TEXAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION DURING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER EVENT. RESIDENTS OF EAST TEXAS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY WEARY OF THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT LATER TONIGHT SINCE SOILS REMAIN SATURATED AND LAKES AND RIVERS CONTINUE AT ABNORMALLY HIGH LEVELS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 2:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Shackelford | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 40 min |
| Mar 8, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wichita | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Baylor | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer, Wichita | 66 min |
| Mar 8, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wichita | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 5:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Archer | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.