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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 27, 1996, 9:41 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 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, 9:41 PM CST (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 1996, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 244 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 280344 FFWSAT TXC019-031-053-171-259-265-280900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 941 PM CST SUN OCT 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BANDERA COUNTY...BLANCO COUNTY...BURNET COUNTY ...GILLESPIE COUNTY...KENDALL COUNTY...KERR COUNTY AT 938 PM...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CONTINUATION OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY...IN A FALL TROPICAL ENVIROMENT...THAT WILL ALLOW RAINS TO CONTINUE TONIGHT. SOME RAIN WILL BE HEAVY...CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. SOME ROADS AND HIGHWAYS IN BANDERA...BLANCO...BURNET...GILLESPIE... KENDALL AND KERR COUNTY HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO HEAVY RAINS IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. 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 HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. AVOID ALREADY FLOODED AREAS. TRAVELERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...LEAVE IT AND MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND IF YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 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. CAMPERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN RECREATION AREAS ALONG CREEKS... STREAMS...AND RIVERS IN THE WARNING AREA SHOULD MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 6:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 2 hr |
| 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 | 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.