Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 1992, 7:18 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1992, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1992, 8:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 KACT 130020 FFWACT TXC027-130215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 718 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WACO TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY AT 718 PM CDT DPS REPORTS MINOR FLOODING IN BELL COUNTY NEAR SALADO... WITH SEVERAL ROADS UNDERWATER. 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. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Hill, McLennan | 69 min |
| May 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 62 min |
| May 12, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 64 min |
| May 12, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 56 min |
| May 12, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brazos | 64 min |
| May 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 60 min |
| May 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 67 min |
| May 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry | 29 min |
| May 13, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher | 57 min |
| May 13, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones, Shackelford | 66 min |
| May 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 61 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.