Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 27, 1996, 6:28 PM CST for Gillespie County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Oct 27, 1996, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1996, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 280032 FFWSAT TXC171-265-280230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 628 PM CST SUN OCT 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GILLESPIE COUNTY...KERR COUNTY AT 625 PM CST..WEATHER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF KERR AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES NEAR AND BETWEEN FREDERICKSBURG AND KERRVILLE. RADAR ESTIMATES MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA. THE KERRVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT ALSO REPORTS RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES OVER THE PAST 90 MINUTES IN AREAS AROUND KERRVILLE. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH ACROSS THIS AREA AT ABOUT 20 MPH. 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. REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND REMEMBER..FLASH FLOODING IS A KILLER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 7:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 4 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Oct 27, 8:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
| Oct 27, 8:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 4 hr |
| Oct 27, 9:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 3 hr |
| Oct 27, 9:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall | 5 hr |
| Oct 27, 9:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 5 hr |
| Oct 27, 11:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 4 hr |
| Oct 28, 1:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 4 hr |
| Oct 28, 5:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 2 hr |
| Oct 28, 5:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 7:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 8:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real, Uvalde | 4 hr |
| Oct 28, 8:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 4 hr |
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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.