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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1992, 8:12 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1992, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bastrop County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 170114 FFWAUS TXC021-170315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 812 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BASTROP COUNTY AT 812 PM RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING INTO BASTROP COUNTY. GROUNDS ARE SATURATED AS 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THAT COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WITH THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN BETWEEN 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR WITH TOTALS TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. \ IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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 16, 7:29 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
TXZ054-170145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 730 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 AT 725 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN NEAR BAKERS CROSSING...43 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN HAD BEEN REPORTED NEAR BAKERS CROSSING. MOTORISTS TRAVELING NORTH OUT COMSTOCK TO JUNO ALONG HIGHWAY 163 SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. CAMPERS AND FISHERMEN ALONG THE DEVILS RIVER SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REMEMBER...IF YOU OBSERVE ANY AMOUNT OF WATER COMING DOWN A CREEK OR DRAW...DO NOT WAIT...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. A SMALL TRICKLE OF WATER CAN BECOME A LINFE THREATENING TORRENT OF WATER IN MINUTES. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 44 min |
| May 16, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 4 hr |
| May 16, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 4 hr |
| May 16, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 3 hr |
| May 16, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes, La Salle, McMullen | 4 hr |
| May 17, 1:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 116 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.