Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 11, 1992, 1:27 PM CST for Jackson County, Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 1992, 1:27 PM CST (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 1992, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, TX, Lavaca County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVCT 111931 FFWVCT TXC239-285-112030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 127 PM CST TUE FEB 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VICTORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTH CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN LAVACA COUNTY THE VICTORIA WEATHER RADAR AT 1 20PM CST INDICATED THAT HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER SOUTHEAST LAVACA COUNTY AND NORTH CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST UNDER 10 MPH. THE LAVACA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED SOME ROADS IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY HAD SOME WATER OVER THEM BUT WERE NOT CLOSED. 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. IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY...YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 11:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 2:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 57 min |
| Feb 11, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 55 min |
| Feb 11, 4:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 59 min |
| Feb 11, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burleson | 68 min |
| Feb 11, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 68 min |
| Feb 11, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Jackson, Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| Feb 11, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 26 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.