Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 23, 1991, 11:30 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 1991, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 1991, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 231631
FFWSAT
TXC463-231830-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1130 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...UVALDE
AT 1130 AM CDT...OVER FIVE INCHES OF RAIN WERE REPORTED IN THE CITY OF
CONCAN IN NORTH UVALDE COUNTY. SEVERAL RIVER CROSSINGS ALONG THE FRIO
RIVER AND ROADS IN AND AROUND THE CONCAN AREA ARE REPORTED CLOSED DUE
TO FLOODING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD
FRONT ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER TWO HOURS.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FL=OODING 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 23, 6:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ034>036-231400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 640 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS OVER BURNET COUNTY... AT 635 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE FROM LAKE TRAVIS TO MARBLE FALLS NORTHWARD TO BERTRAM AND BURNET. THE HEAVY RAIN AREAS WERE FOUND JUST WEST OF LEANDER AND JUST NORTH OF BERTRAM. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS VERY SLOWLY TORWARD THE EAST...WHILE THE AREA WAS BUILDING TO THE SOUTHWEST. THIS RAIN AREA HAS BEEN OVER BURNET COUNTY FOR THE PAST TWO HOURS AND HEAVY RAINS HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER THE CITY OF BURNET BY THE SHERIFFS OFFICE AND KHLB RADIO STATION. PERSONS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. CAMPERS NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS.
Special weather statement, Sep 23, 7:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ039-040-231500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 745 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1991 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 745 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF KERR...BANDERA AND KENDALL COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE N=EXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Sep 23, 9:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ035-038>041-231525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 925 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1991 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 920 AM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NEAR THE AUSTIN AREA...SOUTHWEST TO BANDERA AND HELOTES...TO NEAR UVALDE AND EXTENDING ACROSS EAST MAVERICK COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF GONZALES. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. EARLIER THIS MORNING...A STORM PRODUCED OVER FIVE INCHES OF RAIN IN THE CITY OF BURNET WHICH IS NORTH OF AUSTIN. FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND LOW-WATER CROSSINGS IS POSSIBLE AND MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. PERSONS NEAR THE BANKS OF STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD BE ALERT TO HEAVY RAINS AND RISING WATER. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM AUSTIN TO NEAR DEL RIO...ALONG WITH DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WAS PRODUCING THE RAINS THIS MORNING. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SAG SLOWLY SOUTH TODAY BEFORE BECOMING STATIONARY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER WEATHER UPDATESi.
Special weather statement, Sep 23, 11:21 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
TXZ035-038>041-231730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1120 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1991 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1115 AM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY...FROM NEAR SAN MARCOS TO BOERNE TO GARNER STATE PARK...AND FROM BETWEEN BRACKETTVILLE AND UVALDE TO NORTH OF EAGLE PASS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS SLOWLY TO THE EAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT THAT WAS LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTH OF AUSTIN TO NEAR DEL RIO. LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL ARE LIKELY AS THE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY. UTOPIA IN NORTHEAST UVALDE COUNTY REPORTED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN ALREADY AND OTHER LOCATIONS COULD RECEIVE AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND LOW-WATER CROSSINGS IS POSSIBLE AND MOTORISTS ARE REMINDED NOT TO ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. ALSO PRONE TO FLOODING ARE LOW AREAS NEAR STREAMS AND CREEKS WHICH CAN FLOOD QUICKLY UNDER HEAVY AND PERSISTENT RAINS. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ESPECIALLY ALERT TO HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE RISING WATERS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FURTHER EAST FROM NEAR GONZALES TO EAST OF KENEDY TO NEAR BEEVILLE. THESE SHOWERS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE THAT WAS MOVING SLOWING ONSHORE OVER THE MIDDLE AND LOWER TEXAS COAST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER WEATHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 7:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 12:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 118 min |
| Sep 23, 2:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 117 min |
| Sep 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 3 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.