Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1992, 5:34 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1992, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hunt County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 18, 12:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 18, 1:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 156 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BRAZOS... MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 150 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM FORT WORTH TO BURNET. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 15 MILE SOUTHWEST OF GATESVILLE AND JUST EAST OF WALNUT SPRINGS. THESE WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. ALSO AN AREA OF MAINLY LIGHT RAIN WAS OCCURRING OVER HENDERSON AND NAVARRO COUNTIES...AND FROM SINGLETON TO BRENHAM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR < FLASH FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. MOTORISTISTS ARE URGED TO NEVER CROSS WATER THAT COVERS THE ROAD. MOST FATALITIES OCCURR WHEN VEHICLES ARE SWEPT AWAY BY MOVING WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 18, 2:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 156 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BRAZOS... MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 150 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM FORT WORTH TO BURNET. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GATESVILLE AND JUST EAST OF WALNUT SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. ALSO AN AREA OF MAINLY LIGHT RAIN WAS OCCURRING OVER HENDERSON AND NAVARRO COUNTIES...AND FROM SINGLETON TO BRENHAM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR < FLASH FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO NEVER CROSS WATER THAT COVERS THE ROAD. MOST FATALITIES OCCUR WHEN VEHICLES ARE SWEPT AWAY BY MOVING WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 18, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-182130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 308 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BRAZOS... MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 306 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW WIDELY SCATTERRED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR VALLEY MILLS...AND NEAR NEW BADEN. THESE STORMS CONTAINED HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR < FLASH FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO NEVER CROSS WATER THAT COVERS THE ROAD. MOST FATALITIES OCCUR WHEN VEHICLES ARE SWEPT AWAY BY MOVING WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 18, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ031-032-037-182330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 430 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL... FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR BRAZOS... COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 425 PM CDT WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN MADISON COUNTY NEAR MIDWAY AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF MADISONVILLE...AND ALONG THE LEON/FREESTONE COUNTY LINE 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF JEWETT. OTHER LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN PARTS OF BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...BELL... FALLS...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES. ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER ESPECIALLY DURING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN. MOTORIST SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. AND REMEMBER NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER AREAS EITHER ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 46 min |
| May 18, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 3 hr |
| May 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 46 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.