Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 5:10 PM CST for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1992, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 KMAF 032316 COR SVRMAF TXC135-040015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 510 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...ECTOR COUNTY AT 504 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOLDSMITH. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITIES OF GOLDSMITH AND ODESSA. 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, Mar 3, 4:52 PM CST, 18 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-032350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO... AT 425 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE INCREASING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO. THE AREA WAS FROM SOUTHWEST OF LITTLEFIELD TO SOUTH OF SANDERSON AND THEN WEST TO FORT DAVIS AND NORTH TO TATUM NEW MEXICO. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER FROM NEAR SEMINOLE TO KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINTDS...SMALL HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND CAUSE FLOODING IN LOW-LYING PLACES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.