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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 20, 1991Hays County, Travis County, Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 20, 1991, 7:57 PM CST for Hays County, Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 20, 1991, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
Expired
Dec 20, 1991, 11:00 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hays County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-12-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-12-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 20, 7:57 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLampasas, Mills3 hr
Dec 20, 7:57 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
Dec 20, 9:04 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Edwards, Kendall, Kerr, Real9 hr
Dec 20, 9:28 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLee, Milam3 hr
Dec 20, 9:28 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop3 hr
Dec 20, 10:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays, Travis2 hr
Dec 20, 11:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXUvalde4 hr
Dec 20, 11:47 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal6 hr
Dec 21, 1:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Hays, Travis3 hr
Dec 21, 1:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet, Llano3 hr
Dec 21, 1:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson3 hr
Dec 21, 1:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLampasas3 hr
Dec 21, 2:51 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXKinney, Uvalde7 hr
Dec 21, 3:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Burleson, Lee, Milam4 hr
Dec 21, 3:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXCaldwell4 hr
Dec 21, 3:51 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet, Lampasas, Llano, Travis, Williamson4 hr
Dec 21, 3:51 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays4 hr
Dec 21, 8:36 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca2 hr
Dec 21, 8:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXWebb5 hr
Dec 21, 10:55 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca2 hr
Dec 21, 11:05 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXMilam7 hr
Dec 21, 3:25 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca2 hr

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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.