Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1992, 10:52 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1992, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 27, 5:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 535 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED NORTH AND WEST OF HOBBS AND FROM GRANDFALLS TO BIG LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN WESTERN TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR NEAREST8 WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. .
Special weather statement, May 27, 6:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 635 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 625 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR DENVER CITY IN YOAKUM COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED NEAR SAN ANGELO AND FROM HOBBS TO CARLSBAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..Z.LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 7:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 735 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 725 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN TERRY...HOCKLEY AND BAILEY COUNTIES WEST OF LUBBOCK. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED EAST OF SAN ANGELO. RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM ROSWELL TO HOBBS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 840 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM THURSDAY MORNING... AT 825 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE LOCATED NEAR LUBBOCK...SAN ANGELO AND EUNICE NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE CONCHO VALLEY FROM STERLING CITY TO EDEN. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 940 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM THURSDAY MORNING... AT 933 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF SLATON IN TERRY COUNTY AND SOUTH OF ANDREWS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM LUBBOCK TO LAMESA AND GOLDSMITH. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATT\ERED WEST OF LITTLEFIELD...FROM CARLSBAD TO HOBBS AND SOUTH OF GRANDFALLS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 10:35 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1040 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM THURSDAY MORNING... AT 1025 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED WEST OF POST IN GARZA COUNTY...NEAR GAIL IN BORDEN COUNTY ANDIN MARTIN NEAR LENORAH. SMALL HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED IN NORTH MIDLAND AND SOUTH OF ANDREWS IN THE PAST HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN FOR A PART OD WEST TEXAS UNTIL 200 AM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF LUBBOCK AND NEAR JAL NEW MEXICO.
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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.