Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1992, 4:10 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1992, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1857 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 KVCT 192110 FFWVCT TXC057-200015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 410 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...CALHOUN COUNTY A RAINFALL OBSERVER IN PORT LAVACA REPORTED 7.50 INCHES OF RAINFALL SINCE NOON. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY ANOTHER RAINFALL OBSERVER IN DOWNTOWN PORT LAVACA. AT 405 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ALONG THE COAST NEAR PORT OCONNOR MOVING NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE RAPID RUNOFF OVER THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND FLOODED AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO 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, Jul 19, 1:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ036-037-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 105 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING IN FROM SOUTHEAST TEXAS... AT 100 PM...A WIDESPREAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS LOCATED EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CUERO TO LA GRANGE... GIDDINGS AND CALDWELL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE AREA WAS DRIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST. PERSONS IN FAYETTE...BURLESON AND LEE COUNTIES WILL BE THE FIRST AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BETWEEN 1 AND 2 PM. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH BLINDING VISIBnILITIES IN THE HEAVY RAIN. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID FLOODED ROADS AND SLOW DOWN IN HEAVY RAINFALL. WH
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 212 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 207 PM...A LARGE AREA OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS LOCATED TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM SEGUIN TO BASTROP...THRALL AND TEMPLE. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED FROM EAST OF BASTROP TO LEXINGTON...NEAR THORNDALE...AND EAST OF SMITHVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE HILL COUNTRY NORTH OF LAMPASAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. . PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCALIZED FLOODING AND BLINDING VISIBILITIES IN THE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED NOT TO CROSS A FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSING...AND SLOW DOWN...OR EVEN STOP...WHEN ENCOUNTERING HEAVY RAINFALL. PERSONS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD MOVE ASHORE AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES. WH
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 315 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 310 PM...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... WERE APPROACHING AUSTIN FROM THE EAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SMITHVILLE TO BASTROP...ELGIN..THORNDALE ROGERS AND ROSEBUD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE AUSTIN METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AROUND LAMPASAS AND WEST OF BRIGGS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AAND BE PREPARED FOR TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...BLINDING VISIBILITES...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. PERSONS TRAVELING HOME FROM WORK SHOULD TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS IF HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING...SLOW DOWN AND ALLOW ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE CAR AHEAD OF YOU. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL TV/RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES. WH
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:56 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
TXZ030-034>037-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 355 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR BURNET...BLANCO...LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES... AT 350 PM...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... WERE MOVING NORTHWEST ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE FROM NEW BRAUNFELS AND SEGUIN THROUGH LOCKHART AND LULING TO BASTROP...AND FROM GEORGETOWN TO TEMPLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AROUND LAMPASAS AND WEST OF BRIGGS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. YESTERDAYS HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WATCH AREA HAS PRODUCED A POTENTIAL FLOOD SITUATION SHOULD MORE HEAVY RAINS FALL. STREAMS ARE ABOVE NORMAL AND SOILS REMAIN QUITE WET. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO AVOID FLOODED AREAS IN THE ROADWAY AND NOT CROSS...EVEN BY FOOT. CAMPERS ALONG CREEKS AND RIVERS SHOULD PREPARE TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF HEAVY RAINS BEGIN...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. PERSONS TRAVELING HOME FROM WORK SHOULD TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS IF HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING...SLOW DOWNz AND ALLOW ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE CAR AHEAD OF YOU. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL TV/RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES. WH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.