Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1986, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDRT 060102 FFWDRT TXC465-060600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVITATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 800 PM CDT SUN OCT 5 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE. AT 755 PM CDT MODERATE RAINSHOWERS WERE OBSERVED IN DEL RIO. RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT VAL VERDE COUNTY. SAN FELIPE CREEK CONTINUES TO RISE. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AND FLOODING IN THE SAN FELIPE CREEK AREA IS LIKELY. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SAN FELIPE CREEK AREA SHOULD KEEP A LOOKOUT TONIGHT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. PARTS OF NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY HAVE RECEIVED OVER 10 INCHES OF RAIN. GLASSCOCK RANCH...12 MILES NORTH OF JUNO...REPORTED 10.29 INCHES. SEVERAL ROADS AND HIGHWAYS IN VAL VERDE COUNTY ARE CLOSED OR WASHED OUT. TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. THE DEVILS RIVER AT BAKERS CROSSING WAS AT 20.0 FEET AT 724 PM CDT. FLOODING IS OCCURING ALONG THE DEVILS RIVER. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES..DIPS..OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM..EVEN A SMALL ONE..ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT EDWARDS PLATEAU NORTHWEST OF A EAGLE PASS...KERRVILL ...LLANO LINE. PEOPLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO...LOCAL RADIO STATIONS AND TV BROADCASTS FOR LATER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 11:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
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.