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Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 21, 1991Burnet County, Llano County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 21, 1991, 1:22 AM CST for Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 21, 1991, 1:22 AM CST (07:22 UTC)
Expired
Dec 21, 1991, 4:30 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Burnet County, TX, Llano County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAUS 210721
FFWAUS
TXC281-053-299-491-211030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
122 AM CST SAT DEC 21 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...LAMPASAS COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BURNET COUNTY...EASTERN LLANO COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
AT 1:10 AM...THE SHERIFF IN THE CITY OF LAMPASAS REPORTED HWYS 190E
AND 281N AND 580E AS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.
 
SULFUR CREEK HAD WATER OVER THE BRIDGE AT KEMPNER ON 190E AND TRAILER
HOUSES WERE WASHED OFF THEIR FOUNDATIONS.
 
JUST AFTER 1AM...RADAR SHOWED EMBEDDED HEAVY SHOWERS FORMED SOUTHWEST
THROUGH NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN...OVER THE HILL COUNTRY COUNTIES INCLUDED
IN THIS WARNING.  THEY WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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 WarningEWXHays, Travis, Williamson3 hr
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 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

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.