Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 16, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hale, TX | |
| Apr 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hale, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 162130 SVRLBB TXC189-162230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 430 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...HALE COUNTY AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INIDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL HALE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE 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, Apr 16, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ007>012-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 315 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS... AT 310 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER HALE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTH OF ABERNATHY NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF ABERNATHY. AT 300 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED PEA SIZE HALE SOUTH OF HALE CENTER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 4:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 64 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.