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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 8, 1992Baylor County, Texas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 8, 5:05 PM CSTTornado F0Baylor, TX
Mar 8, 5:13 PM CSTHail 1Baylor, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 1:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan56 min
Mar 8, 2:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Shackelford58 min
Mar 8, 2:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens40 min
Mar 8, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung43 min
Mar 8, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher47 min
Mar 8, 3:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWichita61 min
Mar 8, 3:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher52 min
Mar 8, 4:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBaylor47 min
Mar 8, 5:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Wichita66 min
Mar 8, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWichita47 min
Mar 8, 5:56 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDArcher34 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.