Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1992, 3:32 PM CDT for Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1992, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Willacy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBRO 312034 FFWBRO TXC489-312330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 332 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...WILLACY COUNTY A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WILLACY COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM. AT 330 PM..RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH AND WEST FROM KENEDY COUNTY. FLOODING RAIN IS POSSIBLE..5 INCHES OR MORE..FROM THIS THUNDERSTORMS COMPLEX. MOTORISTS ON HIGHWAY 77..BE WARY OF THE DISRUPTING RAINFALL. HEAVIEST RAIN APPEARED TO BE APPROACHING SEBASTIAN AND RAYMONDVILLE AT 330 PM. MOTORISTS IN URBAN AREAS..ALSO BE WARY OF THE FLOOD THREAT. A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR KENEDY COUNDY UNTIL 6 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST DEATHS IN FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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, May 31, 1:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
TXZ041>044-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 150 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN BRING ADDITIONAL RAIN TO SOUTH TEXAS... AT 127 PM WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTH TEXAS BETWEEN BAFFIN BAY...MERCEDES..AND PORT MANSFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY AND COULD CAUSE FLOODING IN LOWER LYING AREAS. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED IN MANY LOCATIONS...IT WOULD NOT TAKE MUCH ADDITIONAL MOISTURE FOR FLOODING TO OCCUR. FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND NORTHEAST MEXICO EAST OF A LINE FROM HEBBRONVILLE...TO WESLACO...TO SAN FERNANDO MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED OVER THE GULF IN AN AREA EXTENDING 100 MILES OFF SHORE BETWEEN PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...AND LA PESCA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 117 min |
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.