Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 1992, 11:33 AM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1992, 11:33 AM CDT (16:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1992, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 1686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 KCRP 211634 FFWCRP TXC355-212230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1133 AM CDT THU MAY 21 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WESTERN NUECES COUNTY A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE REMAINDER TODAY FOR WESTERN NUECES COUNTY FOR PERSISTANT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THAT AREA. WEATHER RADAR HAS SHOWN THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN KLEBERG COUNTY AND MOVING NORTHWARD INTO WESTERN NUECES COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 77 ALL MORNING WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL PERSISTING IN THE GENERAL AREA FROM BISHOP TO DRISCOLL AND ACROSS HIGHWAY 44 BETWEEN ROBSTOWN AND AGUA DULCA TO NEAR MATHIS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND TRACK OVER THE SAME AREA PRODUCING HIGHWATER IN CREEKS AND STREAMS. THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFTY REPORTED DEEP WATER IN THE MEDIAN AND DITCHES ALONG HIGHWAY 77 NORTH OF BISHOP AND STATED THAT ANY MORE WATER WOULD FLOOD THE HIGHWAY. MORE HEAVY RAINFALL IS ON THE WAY. THIS WILL ALSO PUT ADDITIONAL FLOOD WATER INTO ALREADY FLOODED PETRONILA CREEK WEST OF CHAPMAN RANCH WHERE HIGHWAY 70 REMAINS CLOSED. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH 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. 5
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 21, 10:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TXZ040-042-211915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1019 AM CDT THU MAY 21 1992 ...VERY UNSTABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER SOUTH TEXAS TODAY... TWO UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WERE INFLUENCING SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER TODAY...ONE JUST WEST OF DEL RIO IN MEXICO AND THE OTHER OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WEST OF CORPUS CHRISTI. THE COMBINATION OF THESE DISTURBANCES AND WIDESPREAD TROPICAL AIR OVER SOUTH TEXAS WILL PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. WITH THE EXTREMELY UNSTABLE NATURE OF THE SOUTH TEXAS AIRMASS...FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WEAK...BUT STILL DANGEROUS TORNADOS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS THREAT WILL BE FROM THE COASTAL BEND REGION NORTHWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN FRINGES OF THE HILL COUNTY...OR NEAR SAN ANTONIO TO NORTH OF THE AUSTIN AREA. PERSONS LIVING IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COASTAL BEND REGI+ON OR TRAVELING NORTHWARD FROM CORPUS CHRISTI INTO THE SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE POSSIBLITY OF THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WEAK TORNADOS THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF TODAY. 5
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.