Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 212032 FFWSAT TXC265-212130- FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 330 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PERSONS IN KERR COUNTY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT. AT 325 PM CDT, A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED ALONG THE GAUDALUPE RIVER 20 MILES WEST OF KERRVILLE. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING 4 INCHES PER HOUR. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. A WEATHER SPOTTER 9 MILES WEST OF HUNT REPORTED 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN, WHILE ANOTHER SPOTTER REPORTED GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AND SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS AREAS WHERE FLOWING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROADWAY. STAY OUT OF LOW LYING AREAS. PASHOS &
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, Aug 21, 2:33 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
TXZ172>174-190>194-212100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 232 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 225 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM CENTRAL WILLIAMSON COUNTY TO BLANCO. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN GILLESPIE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN LAKE TRAVIS AND 10 MILES WES OF FREDERICKSBURG. RAIN SHOWERS COVERED A LARGE AREA FROM HOUSTON TO BASTROP TO AUSTIN AND AS FAR NORTH AS LAMPASAS AND CAMERON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AS THE ENTIRE AREA MOVED SLOWLY SOUTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY HAS RECEIVED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN SINCE THIS MORNING AND MANY SPOTS BETWEEN CALDWELL AND BURNET HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH AS ONE INCH TODAY. SOME AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN OCCURS MAY EXPERIENCE BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW SPOTS ON ROADWAYS...BUT FLASH FLOODING IS NOT LIKELY AT THIS TIME. LEACH
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 2:50 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
TXZ183-212050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 250 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 AT 245 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT HONDO INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LOMA ALTA THROUGH NORTH AND EAST OF ROCKSPRINGS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS TRAVELLING ALONG HIGHWAYS 277 AND 377 NORTH OUT OF DEL RIO SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE HEAVY RAIN. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMSITAD AND SURROUNDING RIVERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SHORE AND AWAY FROM THE WATER IF THUNDER IS HEARD...LIGHTNING IS SEEN OR WINDS BEGIN INCREASING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:13 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ168-169-184>190-212000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 313 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 305 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING OVER THE HILL COUNTRY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF KERRVILLE, 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDERICKSBURG, AND BETWEEN LEAKEY AND ROCKSPRINGS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS INDICATED IN THESE STORMS, WITH RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THEY ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. A WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER 9 MILES WEST OF HUNT ON THE UPPER REACHES OF OF THE GUADALUPE RIVER REPORTED 2.5 INCHES WITH A THUNDERSTORM. THE STORMS ARE BEING GENERATED BY A COLD FRONT THAT EXTENDS FROM COLLEGE STATION TO DEL RIO. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN, GUSTY WINDS, AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY OUT OF AREAS WHERE FLOWING WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OF UNKNOWN WATER DEPTH. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY SHOULD A STORM APPROACH. AVOID LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU SEE RAPIDLY RISING WATER, EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, DO NOT WAIT FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED. PASHOS
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:16 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
TXZ168-169-184>190-212000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 313 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 305 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING OVER THE HILL COUNTRY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF KERRVILLE, 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDERICKSBURG, AND BETWEEN LEAKEY AND ROCKSPRINGS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS INDICATED IN THESE STORMS, WITH RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THEY ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. A WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER 9 MILES WEST OF HUNT ON THE UPPER REACHES OF OF THE GUADALUPE RIVER REPORTED 2.5 INCHES WITH A THUNDERSTORM. THE STORMS ARE BEING GENERATED BY A COLD FRONT THAT EXTENDS FROM COLLEGE STATION TO DEL RIO. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN, GUSTY WINDS, AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY OUT OF AREAS WHERE FLOWING WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OF UNKNOWN WATER DEPTH. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY SHOULD A STORM APPROACH. AVOID LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU SEE RAPIDLY RISING WATER, EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, DO NOT WAIT FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED. PASHOS
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:18 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
TXZ168-169-184>190-212100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX 313 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 305 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING OVER THE HILL COUNTRY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF KERRVILLE, 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDERICKSBURG, AND BETWEEN LEAKEY AND ROCKSPRINGS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS INDICATED IN THESE STORMS, WITH RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THEY ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. A WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER 9 MILES WEST OF HUNT ON THE UPPER REACHES OF OF THE GUADALUPE RIVER REPORTED 2.5 INCHES WITH A THUNDERSTORM. THE STORMS ARE BEING GENERATED BY A COLD FRONT THAT EXTENDS FROM COLLEGE STATION TO DEL RIO. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN, GUSTY WINDS, AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY OUT OF AREAS WHERE FLOWING WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OF UNKNOWN WATER DEPTH. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY SHOULD A STORM APPROACH. AVOID LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU SEE RAPIDLY RISING WATER, EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, DO NOT WAIT FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED. PASHOS
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
TXZ172>174-190>194-212200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 330 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING AUSTIN... AT 325 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALONG A LINE FROM OAK HILL TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF DRIPPING SPRINGS TO BLANCO TO FREDERICKSBURG. ISOLATED STORMS WERE NEAR MARBLE FALLS AND 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JOHNSON CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF AUSTIN BY 430 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. PORTIONS OF NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY...AS WELL AS THE FREDERICKSBURG AREA...HAVE RECEIVED MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN TODAY. AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN OCCURS MAY EXPERIENCE BRIEF FLOODING OF CREEKS AND LOW SPOTS ON ROADWAYS...BUT FLASH FLOODING IS NOT LIKELY. LEACH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 3:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 41 min |
| Aug 21, 4:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.