Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1992, 7:45 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1992, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1992, 11:45 AM 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, 0.8 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
- 2116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDRT 091241 RRA FFWDRT TXC465-091645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVITATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 745 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE. AT 740 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...WINDS GUSTING TO 28 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE OBSERVED AT THE DEL RIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. RADAR ALSO INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT VAL VERDE COUNTY. STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IN DEL RIO ARE FLOODED. HAMILTON LANE AND THE RAILROAD UNDERPASS ARE ALSO FLOODED...MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID TRAVEL ON HAMILTON LANE. RESIDENTS IN THE SAN FELIPE CREEK AREA SHOULD KEEP A LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK 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.
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, Jun 9, 4:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ030-034-035-091045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 440 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 435 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM ADAMSVILLE TO LAKE BUCHANAN TO LLANO CITY...AND SOUTHWEST OF ROUND MOUNTAIN. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED FURTHER TO THE WEST FROM SOUTHWEST OF RICHLAND SPRINGS TO WEST OF PONTOTOC AND INTO WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ALONG THE HIGHLAND LAKE CHAIN SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE ASHORE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCAHES. WH
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ054-091115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 455 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 AT 450 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTH HALF OF VAL VERDE COUNTY EXTENDING EAST FROM NEAR LANGTRY TO NEAR SAN ANTONIO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINF ALL WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO NEAR THE JUNCTION OF HIGHWAYS 277N AND 377. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN CROCKETT AND SUTTON COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AND SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING INTO THESE THUNDERSTORMS. PONDING ON HIGHWAYS WILL OCCUR WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY 9SUDDEN GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:56 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ034-035-038-054-091100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 455 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 450 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HONDO SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY FROM NEAR DEL RIO EASTWARD TO BETWEEN BRACKETTVILLE AND ROCKSPRINGS AND BETWEEN UVALDE AND LEAKEY. THIS ACTIVITY WAS DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTH AND EAST DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED OVER SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHERN KERR COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STOMRMS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME FLOODING OF LOW-WATER CROSSINGS COULD OCCUR...WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
TXZ030-034>036-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 550 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY INTO CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 545 AM...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND CENTRAL TEXAS...GENERALLY TO THE WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS NOTED FROM KILLEEN THROUGH MARBLE FALLS INTO WESTERN BLANCO AND EASTERN GILLESPIE COUNTIES. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO LOW WATER CROSSINGS AS THEY TRAVEL THIS MORNING. DO NOT CROSS THE ROAD WHERE WATER COVERS THE PAVyEMENT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE AUSTIN METRO- POLITAN AREA DURING THE RUSH HOUR...AND MOTORISTS SHOULD ALLOW A LITTLE EXTRA TIME TO REACH THE WORK PLACE. WH
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
TXZ054-091215-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX
555 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992
AT 550 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
INCREASING ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY AND EXTENDING EAST INTO THE
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED
FROM 15 TO 25 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO ON BOTH SIDES OF HIGHWAY 277N
AND 377 TOWARD ROCKSPRINGS. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL WERE ALSO OCCURRING 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEL
RIO ALONG FM ROAD 2523 INTO NORTHWEST KINNEY COUNTY. MOTORISTS TRAVELING
IN THAT AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING ON HIGHWAYS AND SOME MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH MODERATE
RAINFALL WERE LOCATED ALONG HIGHWAY 1024 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF COMSTOCK.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.
MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AND SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING IN HEAVY
RAINFALL. PONDING ON HIGHWAYS WILL OCCUR WITH THE HEAVIER
THUNDERSTORMS AND CREATE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. MINOR FLOODING
OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR AS THE RAIN
CONTINUES. FISHECONTINUES. FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD S
HOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY SUDDEN
GUSTY WINDS A1ND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
TXZ034-035-038-054-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 610 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... AT 605 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HONDO SHOWED AN AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY FROM EAST OF DEL RIO TO ROCKSPRINGS...CAMP WOOD...LEAKEY AND TO WESTERN BANDERA COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED OVER SOUTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY AND REAL COUNTY. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER EASTERN BANDERA COUNTY AND OVER KERR AND KENDALL COUNTIES. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES/ AN HOUR. GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STOMRMS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME FLOODING OF LOW-WATER CROSSINGS COULD OCCUR...WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 2 hr |
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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.