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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 14, 1996Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 1996, 10:48 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 14, 1996, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
42 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, 3.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1372 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
6.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 9:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde4 hr
Sep 14, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde61 min
Sep 14, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney62 min
Sep 14, 10:48 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde42 min
Sep 14, 10:59 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXEdwards61 min
Sep 14, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney, Maverick64 min
Sep 15, 12:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKinney3 hr
Sep 15, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards3 hr
Sep 15, 12:56 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXUvalde64 min
Sep 15, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde55 min
Sep 15, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal, Uvalde3 hr
Sep 15, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Medina68 min
Sep 15, 5:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Comal52 min
Sep 15, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe60 min
Sep 15, 5:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays44 min
Sep 15, 8:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca3 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.