Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 25, 1990, 11:25 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1990, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1990, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kinney 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 2382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSAT 260427
FFWSAT
TXC271-260730-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1125 PM CDT WED APR 25 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...KINNEY
HEAVY RAINFALL FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN KINNEY COUNTY
JUST EAST OF BRACKETTVILLE IS ESTIMATED AT NEAR 3 INCHES. THE STORM
BEGAN TO SLOW ITS EASTWARD TRACK JUST BEFORE 930 PM THIS EVENING AND
HAS MOVED VERY SLOWLY IN THE PAST TWO HOURS. RAINFALL IS STILL
OCCURRING OVER EASTERN KINNEY COUNTY AND FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY
TAKING PLACE.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN
REPORTED.
REMEMBER...DEATHS DURING FLASH FLOODING ARE FREQUENTLY RELATED TO
MOTORISTS DRIVING INTO FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS OR FROM CHILDREN
PLAYING NEAR FLOODED STREAMS OR DRAINAGE AREAS.i
YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Apr 25, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Apr 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 6:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Mills | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Mills | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Victoria | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Victoria | 57 min |
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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.