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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 5, 1991Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 5, 1991, 7:02 AM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 5, 1991, 7:02 AM CST (13:02 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 1991, 10:00 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bexar County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 999 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.9

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 4:20 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
Apr 5, 5:47 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXVictoria118 min
Apr 5, 6:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXJackson, Victoria63 min
Apr 5, 7:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCalhoun, Jackson63 min
Apr 5, 7:38 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXVictoria3 hr
Apr 5, 8:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXCalhoun3 hr
Apr 5, 10:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXVictoria2 hr
Apr 5, 11:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXCalhoun2 hr

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.