Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 1993, 4:06 AM CDT for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 1993, 4:06 AM CDT (09:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1213 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 200913 COR FFWSAT TXC259-385-201315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 406 AM CDT WED OCT 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIESS... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...KENDALL COUNTY...REAL COUNTY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS KENDALL COUNTY...HIGHWAY 473 REMAINS CLOSED ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH. OTHER MINOR ROADS ARE FLOODED ACROSS THE COUNTY AND MORE HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED LATER THIS MORNING. HEAVY RAIN IN REAL COUNTY HAS SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS TO BANKFULL ACROSS MANY AREAS OF THE COUNTY. AT 405 AM CDT RADAR THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL REAL TO WEST KERR COUNTY. ANOTHER LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM SAN ANTONIO TO NORTH OF BEORNE NORTHEASTWARD TO THE AUSTIN AREA...MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 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 pESCAPE RISING WATER DURING THREATENING RAINS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ183-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1016 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TONIGHT... ...TORNADO WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED... AT 1010 PM CDT...NO PRECIPITATION REMAINED IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. ALL OF THE ACTIVITY HAD MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. ONE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN THE CITY OF DEL RIO...WHICH OCCURED AROUND 820 PM CDT. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND INJURIES WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...BASEBALL SIZED HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS ACROSS THE CITY. THE TORNADO WAS FIRST REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF DEL RIO NEAR HIGHWAY 277. IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADO TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED ALONG QUALLIA LANE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST AND CROSSED OVER US HIGHWAY 90...AND MOVED PASSED THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT ON HAMILTON LANE. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AND INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN THE VAL VERDE PARK ESTATES AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ183-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1016 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TONIGHT... ...TORNADO WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED... AT 1010 PM CDT...NO PRECIPITATION REMAINED IN VAL VERDE COUNTY. ALL OF THE ACTIVITY HAD MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. ONE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN THE CITY OF DEL RIO...WHICH OCCURED AROUND 820 PM CDT. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND INJURIES WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...BASEBALL SIZED HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS ACROSS THE CITY. THE TORNADO WAS FIRST REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF DEL RIO NEAR HIGHWAY 277. IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADO TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED ALONG QUALLIA LANE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST AND CROSSED OVER US HIGHWAY 90...AND MOVED PASSED THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT ON HAMILTON LANE. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AND INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN THE VAL VERDE PARK ESTATES AREA.
Local storm report, Oct 20, 3:28 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TEXAS
330 AM CDT WED OCT 20 1993
STORM REPORTS FROM TUE OCT 19 1993
540 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT BOX CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
610 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT ROUGH CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
820 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE HIGHWAY
277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
825 PM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE
HIGHWAY 277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
828 PM CDT TORNADO REPORTED OVERHEAD BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER LISTED
ABOVE. PATROL CAR BLOWN OFF HIGHWAY INTO DITCH. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
832 PM CDT DAMAGE REPORTED IN SE PART OF DEL RIO FROM TORNADO.
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN...SEVERAL ROOFS BLOWN OFF.
BASEBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
833 PM CDT 1 1/4" HAIL AND A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH AT LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
837 PM CDT TORNADO SIGHTED NEAR VAL VERDE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
ON THE EAST SIDE OF DEL RIO. MOBILE HOME COMPLETELY
DESTROYED IN THIS AREA. NO INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
840 PM CDT DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES FROM TORNADO IN VAL VERDE PARKS
ESTATES ON EAST SIDE OF DELJ RIO. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL
ALSO REPORTED IN THIS AREA. 2 MINOR INJURIES REPORTED...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
844 PM CDT ROOF DAMAGE TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.Local storm report, Oct 20, 3:30 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TEXAS
330 AM CDT WED OCT 20 1993
STORM REPORTS FROM TUE OCT 19 1993
540 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT BOX CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
610 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED AT ROUGH CANYON OVER LAKE AMISTAD...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
820 PM CDT 3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE HIGHWAY
277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
825 PM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER ON STATE
HIGHWAY 277 ON SOUTH SIDE OF DEL RIO...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
828 PM CDT TORNADO REPORTED OVERHEAD BY SHERIFFS SPOTTER LISTED
ABOVE. PATROL CAR BLOWN OFF HIGHWAY INTO DITCH. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
832 PM CDT DAMAGE REPORTED IN SE PART OF DEL RIO FROM TORNADO.
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN...SEVERAL ROOFS BLOWN OFF.
BASEBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN SEVERAL AREAS. NO
INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
833 PM CDT 1 1/4" HAIL AND A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH AT LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
837 PM CDT TORNADO SIGHTED NEAR VAL VERDE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
ON THE EAST SIDE OF DEL RIO. MOBILE HOME COMPLETELY
DESTROYED IN THIS AREA. NO INJURIES...VAL VERDE COUNTY.
840 PM CDT DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES FROM TORNADO IN VAL VERDE PARKS
ESTATES ON EAST SIDE OF DEL RIO. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL
ALSO REPORTED IN THIS AREA. 2 MINOR INJURIES REPORTED...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.
844 PM CDT ROOF DAMAGE TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR LAUGHLIN AFB...
VAL VERDE COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 28 min |
| Oct 19, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| Oct 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 min |
| Oct 19, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 44 min |
| Oct 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 53 min |
| Oct 19, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco | 57 min |
| Oct 19, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet | 49 min |
| Oct 19, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 27 min |
| Oct 19, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 12:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 53 min |
| Oct 20, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 44 min |
| Oct 20, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 42 min |
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.