Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 1992, 11:50 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1992, 11:50 AM CDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1992, 12:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- 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, 4.8 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
- 1399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 181647 FFWDRT TXC465-182050- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVITATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1150 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 350 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...VAL VERDE. 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. RANCHERS IN NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY HAVE REPORTED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN S|INCE THIS MORNING. WATER IS FAST APPOACHING THE BRIDGE ON THE DEVILS RIVER AT BAKERS CROSSING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS AS THEY DEVELOP
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, Jul 18, 11:29 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
TXZ054-181730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1130 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 AT 1125 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM SONORA TO JUNO TO COMSTOCK THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COMSTOCK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE PORTION OF HIGHWAY 1024 IN NORTHERN VAL VERDE COUNTY IS SUBJECT TO CLOSER DUE TO THE LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN RECEIVED AT THIS POINT. HIGHWAY 163 NORTH OUT OF COMSTOCK HAS ALSO RECEIVED LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN. MILLER RANCH JUST NORTH OF VAL VERDE COUNTY REPORTED 3.40 INCHES...ACTON RANCH ALSO JUST NORTH OF THE VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE REPORTED 4.50 INCHES SINCE LAST NIGHT. DRAWS IN THE NORTERN PORTION OF VAL VERDE COUNTY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVE STARTED RUNNING AT THIS TIME...BE PREPARED FOR LOW WATER CROSSINGS TO START RUNNING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE DEL RIO AND LAKE AMISTAD AREAS. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THE WEATHER BEGINS TO D6ETERIORATE. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR DETAILS AS THEY DEVELOP.
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.