Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1993, 3:19 PM CDT for Bandera County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1993, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1993, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bandera County, TX, Medina County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 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 052021 FFWSAT TXC019-325-052300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 319 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...BANDERA COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP SLOWLY TOWARD THE WEST. RAINFALL IN THE PAST HOUR ACROSS MEDINA AND BANDERA COUNTIES HAS BEGUN TO REACH FLASH FLOOD THRESHOLDS. AUTHORITIES IN MEDINA COUNTY REPORTS SOME OF THE STREETS IN HONDO ARE BEGINNING TO FILL WITH WATER. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS OVER THESE TWO COUNTIES...SO FLOODING IS IMMINENT. AVOID ALREADY FLOODED AREAS. TRAVELERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...LEAVE IT AND MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 RISI@NG 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, May 5, 9:19 AM CDT, 6 hours before
TXZ034-035-036-037-051515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 919 AM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 4 PM FOR TRAVIS ... HAYS...CALDWELL...BASTROP...LEE...BURLESON...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... AT 915 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SAN MARCOS AND LULING TO FLATONIA AND ROSANKY...AND FROM ROSANKY TO COLLEGE STATION. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HAIL...DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS...EPSECIALLY IN AREAS EAST AND SOUTH OF AUSTIN SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING BE ISSUED. HOHMANN
Special weather statement, May 5, 9:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ034-035-036-037-051515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 919 AM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 4 PM FOR TRAVIS ... HAYS...CALDWELL...BASTROP...LEE...BURLESON...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES... AT 915 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SAN MARCOS AND LULING TO FLATONIA AND ROSANKY...AND FROM ROSANKY TO COLLEGE STATION. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HAIL...DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS...EPSECIALLY IN AREAS EAST AND SOUTH OF $AUSTIN SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING BE ISSUED. HOHMANN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 90 min |
| May 5, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 90 min |
| May 5, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Jackson | 58 min |
| May 5, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 3 hr |
| May 5, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| May 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 56 min |
| May 5, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 34 min |
| May 5, 2:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 4 hr |
| May 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 60 min |
| May 5, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 59 min |
| May 5, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 68 min |
| May 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Victoria | 2 hr |
| May 5, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | La Salle | 67 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.