Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1992, 4:50 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1992, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 KDRT 032148 FFWDRT TXC465-040200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVITATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 450 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE. AT 445 PM CDT LAGRANDE RANCH...10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEL RIO...REPORTED DRAWS RUNNING INTO JOHNSON DRAW AND DRAWS AROUND HIS HOUSE RUNNING ONE AND ONE HALF FEET ABOVE THE ROAD. RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO NORTHWARD TO THE VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. REMEMBER...MANY FLASH FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ARE SWEPT AWAY. PARENTS SHOULD NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY IN OR NEAR FLOOD DRAINAGE DITCHES... RAPIDLY RUNNING CREEKS AND RIVERS...OR DAMS OR SPILLWAYS. CAMPERS...FISHERMEN AND HIKERS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AND AWAY FROM THE FLOOD PLAINS OF CREEKS AND RIVERS SUBJECT TO RAPIDLY RISING WATERS OR FLASH FLOODING. FARMERS AND RANCHERS SHOULD MOVE LIVESTOCK AND EQUIPMENT AWAY FROM LOW LYING AREAS ADJACENT TO CREEKS AND RIVERS. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY THROUGH TONIGHT...
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 3, 1:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ054-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 155 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1992 AT 150 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS THROUGHOUT MOST OF VAL VERDE COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM NEAR THE ROUGH CANYON MARINA TO JUNO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. BOATERS...FISHERMEN AND CAMPERS ON LAKE AMISTAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD KEEP A WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHORE AND AWAY FROM THE WATER IF THUNDER IS HEARD...LIGHTNING IS SEEN OR WINDS BEGIN INCREASING. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ONj HIGHWAYS IN VAL VERDE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITY AND NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ038>041-054-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 200 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 200 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AND EDWARDS PLATEAU. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN PEARSALL AND CAMPBELLTON JUST SOUTH OF FM 140. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS HAS BEEN TO THE WEST AT 5 MPH. ELSEWHERE...STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTH VAL VERDE COUNTY AND ACROSS THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING ALONG THE ALMOST STATIONARY COOL FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS FROM NORTH OF DEL RIO TO NORTH OF AUSTIN. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN A COUPLE OF HOURS. THIS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND LOW-WATER CROSSINGS. IN ADDITION...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING THE EDWARDS PLATEAU...HILL COUNTRY...AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN TUNED TO LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION.
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-032045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 235 PM CDT SUN 03 MAY 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO THE DISTANT NORTH AND SOUTH OF AUSTIN... AT 230 PM...RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WACO TO KILLEEN AND ANOTHER SMALL CLUSTER NEAR LAKE BUCHANAN. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED FROM THE GULF COASTAL BEND... INLAND TO SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO. ALL SHOWERS WERE DRIFTING TO THE WEST AT NEAR 10 MPH. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...ESPECIALLY BOATERS ON AREA LAKES...SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF LIGHTNING IS SEEN...THUNDER IS HEARD OR WINDS BEGIN TO INCREASE. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD PEAK DURIN G THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS...SO CHECK THIS STATION OFTEN FOR THE LATEST WEATHER IN- FORMATION. JVD
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
TXZ030-034-035-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 315 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 310 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FROM WACO SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH FORT HOOD... LAMPASAS...AND CHEROKEE TO JUNCTION. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT ONLY 5 MPH. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND NOT TO CROSS A FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSING. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...ESPECIALLY BOATERS ON ARENA LAKES...SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF LIGHTNING IS SEEN...THUNDER IS HEARD OR WINDS BEGIN TO INCREASE.
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:23 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
TXZ030-034-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 424 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1992 AT 420 PM...RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FROM WACO AND FORT HOOD TO LAMPASAS...AND FROM SAN SABA TO JUNCTION. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEROKEE AND 5 MILES EAST OF LAMPASAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCAL FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OF LOW W CROSSINGS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:25 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
TXZ030-034-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 424 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1992 AT 420 PM...RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FROM WACO AND FORT HOOD TO LAMPASAS...AND FROM SAN SABA TO JUNCTION. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEROKEE AND 5 MILES EAST OF LAMPASAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCAL FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 33 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.