Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1992, 5:26 AM CST for Bastrop County, Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1992, 5:26 AM CST (11:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1992, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAUS 041127 FFWAUS TXC021-031-055-209-453-491-041500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 526 AM CST WED MAR 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BASTROP COUNTY...BLANCO COUNTY...CALDWELL COUNTY...HAYS COUNTY ...TRAVIS COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY AT 520 AM RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING TO DEVELOP TO OUR SOUTHWEST AND MOVE NORTHEASTWARD INTO MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. RAINFALL RATES ON THE ORDER OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED AND ANOTHER 2 OR 3 HOURS OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR BLANCO AND HAYS COUNTIES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. gNEVER 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
Local storm report, Mar 3, 11:48 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1145 PM CST TUE MAR 03 1992
STORM SYSTEM TUESDAY...3/03/1992...
TIME COUNTY EVENT
2110 MILLS MARBLE TO 3/4 INCH HAIL NEAR GOLDTHWAITE AS REPORTED
BY THE MILLS COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE.
2230 FAYETTE WIND GUST TO 60 MPH NEAR CISTERN AS REPORTED BY TV-24
WEATHER WATCHER.
2240 BASTROP SMITHVILLE POLICE REPORTED 3/4 INCH TO A FEW GOLFBALL
SIZE HAILSTONES IN THE CITY OF SMITHVILLE WITH 40 TO
50 MPH WINDS.
LUNA
.ENDLocal storm report, Mar 4, 5:02 AM CST, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
502 AM CST WED MAR 04 1992
TIME EVENT
315 AM (APPROX) EVACUATING CAMP JELLYSTONE DUE TO RISING WATERS ON
MEDINA RIVER...MEDINA COUNTY
335 AM FLOODING...HIGHWAY 55 ALONG NUECES RIVER IN UVALDE COUNTY
CLOSED
348 AM GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HIGHWAY 46 WEST IN COMAL COUNTYLocal storm report, Mar 4, 5:11 AM CST, 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
511 AM CST WED MAR 04 1992
TIME EVENT
315 AM (APPROX) EVACUATING CAMP JELLYSTONE DUE TO RISING WATERS ON
MEDINA RIVER...BANDERA COUNTY
335 AM FLOODING...HIGHWAY 55 ALONG NUECES RIVER IN UVALDE COUNTY
CLOSED
348 AM GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HIGHWAY 46 WEST IN COMAL COUNTYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 59 min |
| Mar 3, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 41 min |
| Mar 3, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 57 min |
| Mar 3, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 56 min |
| Mar 3, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 12:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Comal, Kendall, Kerr | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 50 min |
| Mar 4, 5:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Caldwell, Hays | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 60 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.