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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 2, 1996Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1996, 8:22 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1996, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Val Verde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 030126
FFWSAT
TXC465-030230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
822 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...VAL VERDE COUNTY
 
AT 820 PM CDT...HAIL WAS REPORTED AT LAKE AMISTAD.
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY
OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING SMALL
STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO
THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	60 min
Jun 2, 7:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kerr, Real	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	63 min
Jun 2, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	59 min
Jun 2, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	57 min
Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales	60 min
Jun 2, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	68 min
Jun 2, 8:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kerr	2 hr
Jun 2, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	2 hr
Jun 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	60 min
Jun 2, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe	56 min
Jun 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Medina	60 min
Jun 2, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	2 hr
Jun 2, 9:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina	3 hr
Jun 2, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	55 min
Jun 2, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	66 min
Jun 2, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Guadalupe, Wilson	56 min
Jun 3, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Lavaca	69 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.