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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 3, 1991Lampasas County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1991, 1:43 PM CDT for Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 1991, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1991, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lampasas County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 13.9

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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 flash flood 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 3, 8:24 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 10:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 10:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	62 min
May 3, 10:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	62 min
May 3, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	66 min
May 3, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	65 min
May 3, 10:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina	3 hr
May 3, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	68 min
May 3, 11:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	50 min
May 3, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	59 min
May 3, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	68 min
May 3, 1:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	55 min
May 3, 1:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	3 hr
May 3, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	67 min
May 3, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	30 min
May 3, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	67 min
May 3, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Webb	68 min
May 3, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	San Saba	39 min
May 3, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Webb	66 min
May 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	La Salle	60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1991 Every flash flood warning in 1991

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.