Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 1991, 9:07 AM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 1991, 9:07 AM CDT (14:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1991, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSAT 141408
FFWSAT
TXC385-141915-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
907 AM CDT SAT SEP 14 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...REAL
REPORTS FROM NORTHERN REAL COUNTY INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES
OF RAIN FELL THIS MORNING...AND WATER HAS BEGUN TO COVER SOME OF THE
ROADS NORTH OF LEAKEY. THE WATER WILL CONTINUE TO RISE OVER LOW WATER
CROSSINGS AS HEAVY RAIN HAS CONTINUED NORTH OF THE COUNTY.
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.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, Sep 14, 5:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ054-141400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 510 AM CDT SAT SEP 14 1991 AT 510 AM THE RIO GRANDE RIVER AT THE DEL RIO INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE HAD RISEN TO 4.43 FEET WITH A WATER FLOW OF 13,060 CFS. THIS HAS PRODUCED MINOR ROAD FLOODING ALONG THE NORTH END OF THE VEGA VERDE AREA ROAD ALONG THE RIO GRANDE NEAR DEL RIO. ALTHOUGH THIS IS STILL NOT A MAJOR THREAT TO HOMES IN THE AREA THAT THREAT HAS INCREASED SOMEWHAT DURIN7G THE PAST TWO HOURS. THE WATER OF THE RIO GRANDE IN THAT AREA SHOULD BEGIN TO LEVEL OFF IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE VEGA VERDE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR ANY THREAT TO THEIR HOMES...ESPECIALLY DURING DARKNESS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 2:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 4 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.