Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1992, 7:27 AM CDT for Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1992, 7:27 AM CDT (12:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1992, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 KSPS 081228 FFWSPS TXC485-081530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 727 AM CDT MON JUN 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA FALLS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WICHITA COUNTY AT 725 AM DPS OF WICHITA FALLS REPORTS THE CLOSING OF 1206 AND 258... 1206 AND 258 NEARLY UNPASSABLE AND NEAR KADANE CORNER IN THE INTERSECTION OF 25 AND 2226 AND 1180 AND 258. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN FALLING OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF WICHITA COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY DRIFTING EAST. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, Jun 8, 6:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ019>033-081800- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 610 AM CDT MON JUN 8 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY FOR THAT PART OR NORTH TEXAS WEST OF A WICHITA FALLS...ABILENE LINE. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE RISK AREA TODAY...WITH ONLY A SLIM CHANCE OF A TORNADO. A MAJOR UPPER AIR IMPULSE WAS LOCATED OVER WEST TEXAS THIS MORNING AND WILL MOVE ACROSS A BROAD AREA OF MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS MODERATELY UNSTABLE OVER THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING. A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDED FROM NEAR NACOGDOCHES WEST TO NEAR LUBBOCK...AND CONVECTION SHOULD PERSIST ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THIS FRONT TODAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE MOVES EAST. THE VERTICLE WINDS SHEAR PROFILE IS RATHER WEAK...AND WOULD SUPPORT ONLY ISOLATED WEAK AND SHORT LIVED TORNADOES. SPOTTER NETWORKS IN THE RISK AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer, Clay | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Clay | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 69 min |
| Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Shackelford | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 3:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wilbarger | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 46 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.