Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 11, 1992, 3:20 PM CST for Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 1992, 3:20 PM CST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 1992, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lavaca County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVCT 112125 COR FFWVCT TXC285-112215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 320 PM CST TUE FEB 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN LAVACA COUNTY THE VICTORIA WEATHER RADAR AT 315 PM INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN LAVACA COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ROADWAYS AND LOW FLOOD PRONE AREAS WILL LIKELY FLOOD AS THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE InMMEDIATELY...YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. 00
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 11:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 1:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 63 min |
| Feb 11, 2:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 57 min |
| Feb 11, 4:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 59 min |
| Feb 11, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burleson | 68 min |
| Feb 11, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 68 min |
| Feb 11, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 26 min |
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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.