Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1992, 1:07 PM CST for Brazoria County, Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1992, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1992, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Harris County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 2252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 051909 SVRHOU TXC039-201-052000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 107 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...EASTERN BRAZORIA COUNTY...SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY AT 105 PM... BRAZORIA COUNTY OFFICIAL REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 390 AND FM 1462. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH TOWARD THE COMMUNITIES OF ALVIN AND FRIENDSWOOD. IT WILL THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY AND THE CLEAR LAKE AREA. ALL PERSONS IN EASTERN BRAZORIA COUNTY AND SOUTHER HARRIS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVCE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 5, 7:58 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ048-051800- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TX 755 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG FOR GALVESTON AND CHAMBERS COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... PATCHY DENSE FOG WAS REDUCING THE VISIBILITY OVER GALVESTON AND CHAMBERS COUNTIES AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATER FROM NEAR ZERO TO 1 MILE. AT 750 AM THE VISIBILITY IN DOWNTOWN GALVESTON WAS 1/8 OF A MILE. THE FOG WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MID MORNING THEN CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CARE ON THE HIGHWAYS BY SLOWING DOWN WHEN APPROACHING DENSER FOG PATCHES AND USING LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND/OR FLASHERS. MARINERS WITHOUT NAVIGATIONAL AIDS SHOUlLD REMAIN IN PORT UNTIL THE VISIBILITY IMPROVES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AS NEEDED.
Local storm report, Mar 5, 9:38 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
940 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992
TIME COUNTY EVENT
730 AM WALLER TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT BROOKSHIRE. ROOF DAMAGE
TO SEVERAL HOMES AND BUSINESSES.
1100 AM FORT BEND THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR REPORTED BY
THE MAYOR OF SIMONTON IN NORTHWEST FORT BEND
COUNTY. CLAIMED THAT HE NEVER HAD SEEN THAT
MUCH WATER IN HIS FRONT YARD.
1200 PM HARRIS ONE TO TWO INCH RAINFALL PER HOUR REPORTED BY
SEVERAL OBSERVERS...MAINLY FROM SOUTHWEST TO
NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. ROADS BECAME
IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOODING OF BAYOUS. ALL BUT
TWO ROADS LEADING OUT OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON
BECAME CLOSED WITHIN AN HOUR. LARGE NUMBER OF
HOMES AND BUSINESSES NEAR BAYOUS FLOODED. STORM
TOTALS OF FOUR TO EIGHT INCHES WERE COMMON ACROSS
THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS
OF OVER NINE INCHES IN SOME LOCATIONS.
100 PM LIBERTY ONE TO TWO INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL RATES MOVED INTO
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. IN EXCESS OF FIVE
INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN CLEVELAND THROUGH THE AFTER-
NOON. FLOODING REPORXTED ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF
COUNTY.Special weather statement, Mar 5, 9:49 AM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ048-051800- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TX 944 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992 ...RAIN AND SMALL HAIL OCCURRING OVER GALVESTON ISLAND... A SMALL THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE WEST END OF GALVESTON ISLAND AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING UP TO 1/2 INCH HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS OVER THE ISLAND BY 1000 AM A ND ENTER THE NORTHERN GULF. MARINERS SHOULD SEEK A SAFE HARBOR.
Local storm report, Mar 5, 9:51 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
940 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992
TIME COUNTY ...EVENTS FROM YESTERDAY MARCH 4...
730 AM WALLER TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT BROOKSHIRE. ROOF DAMAGE
TO SEVERAL HOMES AND BUSINESSES.
1100 AM FORT BEND THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR REPORTED BY
THE MAYOR OF SIMONTON IN NORTHWEST FORT BEND
COUNTY. CLAIMED THAT HE NEVER HAD SEEN THAT
MUCH WATER IN HIS FRONT YARD.
1200 PM HARRIS ONE TO TWO INCH RAINFALL PER HOUR REPORTED BY
SEVERAL OBSERVERS...MAINLY FROM SOUTHWEST TO
NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. ROADS BECAME
IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOODING OF BAYOUS. ALL BUT
TWO ROADS LEADING OUT OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON
BECAME CLOSED WITHIN AN HOUR. LARGE NUMBER OF
HOMES AND BUSINESSES NEAR BAYOUS FLOODED. STORM
TOTALS OF FOUR TO EIGHT INCHES WERE COMMON ACROSS
THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS
OF OVER NINE INCHES IN SOME LOCATIONS.
100 PM LIBERTY ONE TO TWO INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL RATES MOVED INTO
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. IN EXCESS OF FIVE
INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN CLEVELAND THROUGH THE AFTER-
NOON. FLOODING REPORTED ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF
COUNTY.
...CORRECTED TO CLARIFY DATE OF EVENT...Special weather statement, Mar 5, 11:41 AM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
TXZ049-047-051945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1140 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS... ...FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT... AT 1135 AM... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM BEAUMONT TO LEAGUE CITY AND VICTORIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE OVER GALVESTON BAY AND OVER MATAGORDA COUNTY NEAR BAY CITY. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HITCHCOCK IN GALVESTON COUNTY AROUND 11 PM. BETWEEN NOON AND 2 PM... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND JUST INLAND FROM THE COAST FROM BEAUMONT TO VICTORIA. THE COUNTIES OF MATAGORDA... BRAZORIA AND GALVESTON... INCLUDING MATAGORDA BAY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. FORT BEND... WHARTON AND HARRIS COUNTIES ALSO HAVE A CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS. ALL PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PROPERTY. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCES FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 12:51 PM CST, 16 minutes before
TXZ046-032-060000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
1250 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 600 PM CST...
THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR THE COUNTIES TRINITY...
LIBERTY AND POLK. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL DUE TO CONTINUED SOUTH AND
SOUTHEAST WINDS OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE.
IN ADDITION TO THIS THREAT... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT FELL OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS ON
WEDNESDAY... ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL POSE A SIGNIFICANT THREAT.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT A WATCH MEANS CONDITION ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE
FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. ALL
PERSONS IN TRINITY... LIBERTY AND POLK COUNTIES ARE URGED TO PREPARE
FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS... HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION
SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Polk | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.