Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 1991, 8:01 PM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1991, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1991, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 00:00Z, 1.0 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
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 200108
FFWSAT
TXC385-200700-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
801 PM CDT THU SEP 19 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...REAL
HONDO RADAR INDICATED THAT RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER REAL COUNTY. RAINAMOUNTS OVER ONE INCH HAVE BEEN REPORTED NEAR LEAKEY AND ONE HALF INCH
AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN MANY AREAS SINCE NOON TODAY. HIGHWAY 336
NORTH OF LEAKEY HAS BEEN CLOSED AND DITCHES ALONG THE ROADSIDES OVER
MUCH OF REAL COUNTY ARE FULL OF WATER.
INDICATIONS ARE THAT RAINFALL OVER REAL COUNTY WILL CONTINUE FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING. THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND ANY ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL WILL RUNOFF INTO ALREADY SWOLLEN RIVERS AND CREEKS WHICH COULDOVERFLOW AND CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOOD PROBLEMS THIS EVENING AND INTO TONIG
PERSONS IN REAL COUNTY SHOULD STAY INFORMED AND MOTORISTS EXPECIALLY
SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ESPECIALLY WHEN APPROACHING LOW LYING AREAS
AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS REGARDING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
WEATHER EVENT.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 19, 5:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ034>035-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 525 PM CDT THU SEP 19 1991 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR BURNET...LLANO...GILLISPIE AND BLANCO COUNTIES IN NO LONGER IN EFF ECT... ONLY SCATTERED MOSTLY LIGHT RAINS REMAIN OVER CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED ENDED.
Special weather statement, Sep 19, 5:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ034>035-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 525 PM CDT THU SEP 19 1991 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR BURNET...LLANO...GILLISPIE AND BLANCO COUNTIES IN NO LONGER INR EFFECT... ONLY SCATTERED MOSTLY LIGHT RAINS REMAIN OVER CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED. PJL
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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.