Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1996, 11:39 AM CDT for Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. 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 26, 1996, 11:39 AM CDT (16:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1996, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lavaca County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 KSAT 261650 FFWSAT TXC149-285-287-262045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1139 AM CDT WED JUN 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...FAYETTE COUNTY...LAVACA COUNTY...LEE COUNTY AT 1135 AM CDT...THE NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR AT NEW BRAUNFELS INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR...FROM GIDDINGS SOUTHWARD PAST LAGRANGE AND HALLETTSVILLE TO VICTORIA AND ROCKPORT. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. RAINFALL TOTALS IN FAYETTE AND LAVACA COUNTIES HAVE TOTALED BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL TOTALS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES ARE PASSING OVER THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SOAKED FROM EARLIER RAINS...AND THESE STORMS WILL SOON MOVE ACROSS LEE COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...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 DURING THREATENING RAINS. FLOOD PRONE URBAN AREAS FILL WITH WATER QUICKLY. CLOGGED STORM DRAINS MAY CAUSE OTHER AREAS TO FLOOD. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS AND STAY AWvAY FROM STORM DRAINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.