Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 24, 1992, 2:48 PM CST for Calhoun County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 1992, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 1992, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 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 KVCT 242051 FFWVCT TXC057-242145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 248 PM CST MON FEB 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...CALHOUN COUNTY THE VICTORIA WEATHER RADAR AT 2 45 PM CST INDICATED VERY HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CALHOUN COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS AROUND PORT LAVACA. 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 IMMEDIATELY...YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
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
Local storm report, Feb 24, 10:07 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
750 PM CST SAT FEB 22 1992
STORM SYSTEM OF MONDAY...2/24/1992...
TIME COUNTY EVENT
0745 TRAVIS PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AT LAMAR/ANDERSON LANE (AUS)
0845 GILLESPIE 11SW OF FREDERICKSBURG...MARBLE HAIL/OVER 2 INCHES OF
RAIN IN 1 HR. 15 MIN. PERIOD. POWER OUTAGE.
0847 GILLESPIE HAM RADIO SPOTTER...2 INCHES IN 1 HR. EST. WINDS 45 MPH.
0932 WILLIAMSON PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT CEDAR PARK COMING DOWN IN
BUCKETS.
0944 BLANCO FRONTAL PASSAGE AT 0935C..NW 35 AND A COLD HARD RAIN
WIDESPREAD ICE CREAM SALT HAIL...2 INCHES DEEP IN SPOTS.
...kLATER UPDATES...
JVDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 7:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 67 min |
| Feb 24, 9:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 58 min |
| Feb 24, 9:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 58 min |
| Feb 24, 9:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Goliad | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burleson | 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.