Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1992, 2:09 PM CST for Bastrop County, Caldwell County, Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1992, 2:09 PM CST (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1992, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Travis County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 KAUS 032009 FFWAUS TXC021-055-453-032315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 209 PM CST MON FEB 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BASTROP COUNTY...CALDWELL COUNTY...EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAINS OVER CALWELL COUNTY SPREADING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THESE RAINS WILL BE MOVING INTO EASTERN TRAVIS AND BASTROP COUNTIES BY 230 PM. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN CALDWELL COUNTY REPORTS HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN OVER THAT COUNTY FOR THE LAST HALF-HOUR AND MORE HEAVY RAINS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WARNED AREA. THESE RAINS WILL FALL ON ALREADY SATUATED GROUNDS CAUSING RAPID RUNOFF AND CLOSING LOW-WATER CROSSINGS. 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.
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, Feb 3, 8:25 AM CST, 5 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ041-042-031600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 825 AM CST MON FEB 3 1992 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR LAREDO AND SURROUNDING AREA OF THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS... DENSE FOG HAS CONTINUED TO REDUCE VISIBILITY FROM LAREDO AND COTULLA EASTWARD TO THE MID TEXAS COAST AND COASTAL PLAINS NEAR ALICE AND CORPUS CHRISTI. AT 800 AM THIS MORNING...VISIBILITY WAS REPORTED TO BE BELOW 1 MILE AT BOTH COTULLA AND LAREDO AND BELOW 1/4 MILE AT ALICE AND CORPUS CHRISTI. VISIBILITY IS LIKELY NEAR ZERO OVER MANY SECTIONS OF THIS FOG ADVISORY AREA THIS MORNING. THE FOG WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MID MORNING HOURS...THEN BEGIN TO DISSIPATE. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ACROSS THI|S PART OF SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD PLAN ON USING REDUCED SPEEDS AND SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR TRAVEL.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 10:18 AM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ039-041-031800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1018 AM CST MON FEB 3 1992 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR AN AREA FROM SAN ANTONIO SOUTHWARD TO LAREDO THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING... DENSE FOG IS LIMITING VISIBILITY TO GENERALLY 1/4 TO 1/2 MILE AND OCCASIONALLY TO NEAR ZERO IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BETWEEN LAREDO AND SAN ANTONIO. DENSE FOG REPORTED EARLIER EASTWARD ACROSS ALICE TO THE MID TEXAS COAST HAS IMPROVED IN THE PAST TWO HOURS AND NO LONGER REQUIRES AN ADVISORY. THE FOG AT SAN ANTONIO AND LAREDO AND POINTS IN BETWEEN WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH IN THE LATE MORNING HOURS...WITH VISIBILITY NEAR 1 MILE BY NOON...IMPROVING SLOWLY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ACROSS THIS AREA OF DENSE FOG SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE LOWER SPEEDS AND PLAN ON LONGER TRAVEL TIMES THIS MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 3:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.