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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 14, 1991Travis County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 1991, 11:51 PM CDT for Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 1991, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1991, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Travis County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Aug 14, 7:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

TXZ035>036-150200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
730PM CDT WED AUG 14 1991

   ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 725PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
THROUGH WILLIAMSON...TRAVIS...BLANCO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF HUTTO IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY
AND IN WEST CENTRAL TRAVIS COUNTY JUST WEST OF MO-PAC HIGHWAY.  SOME
OF THESE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN
A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.  A WEATHER SPOTTER IN HUTTO REPORTED NEARLY
AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN IN A 20 MINUTE PERIOD BETWEEN 630 AND 7PM
THIS EVENING.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AND
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW AREAS WHERE WATER IS ACROSS
THE ROADWAY.

WITHROW

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 10:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 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
Aug 14, 8:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr

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.