Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 1994, 1:36 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1994, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1994, 3:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 3025 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 14.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDRT 130636 FFWDRT TXC465-131045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 136 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DEL RIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...VAL VERDE COUNTY AT 130 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF COMSTOCK...27 MILES NW OF DEL RIO... TO LOMA ALTA...40 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO. THESE STORMS HAVE PERSISTED IN THE LOMA ALTA AND ROUGH CANYON OF LAKE AMISTAD FOR OVER AN HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES EXCEED 4 INCHES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN THE ROUGH CANYON AND LOMA ALTA AREA SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION VERY CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF FLOODING SHOULD OCCUR. LOW WATER CROSSINGS ON ROADS THROUGHOUT THIS AREA WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. ANY MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION IN THAT AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. RNEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. NNNN
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 13, 12:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TXZ183-130630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1225 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 AT 1215 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY FROM NEAR LANGTRY NORTHEAST TO NEAR ROCKSPRINS IN EDWARDS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR LOMA ALTA ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT WAST TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE TWO AREAS OF PRECIPITATION COULD COME TOGETHER IN THE DEL RIO AREA IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS AND BECOME STRONGER. SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN EASTERN VAL VERDE COULD FLOOD BRIEFLY. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN DEL RIO AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE CITY. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR AS THESE STORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, May 13, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
TXZ183-130630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 1225 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 AT 1215 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY FROM NEAR LANGTRY NORTHEAST TO NEAR ROCKSPRINS IN EDWARDS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR LOMA ALTA ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT WAST TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE TWO AREAS OF PRECIPITATION COULD COME TOGETHER IN THE DEL RIO AREA IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS AND BECOME STRONGER. SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN EASTERN VAL VERDE COULD FLOOD BRIEFLY. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN DEL RIO AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE CITY. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR AS THESE STORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, May 13, 12:55 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
TXZ183-130700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 100 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 AT 1250 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY FROM SOUTHWEST OF COMSTOCK EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO NEAR ROCKSPRINS IN EDWARDS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED OVER LAKE AMISTAD ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THES STORMS SHOULD MOVE IN THE DEL RIO AREA IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.. SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN EASTERN VAL VERDE COULD FLOOD BRIEFLY. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN LDEL RIO AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE CITY. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR AS THESE STORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, May 13, 12:57 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ183>189-202>206-217>219-130730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1257 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 AT 1250 AM THIS MORNING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND EDWARDS PLATEAU. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM NEAR JUNCTION TO ROCKSPRINGS TO JUST NORTH OF DEL RIO. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS SO FAR PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND VERY DRAMATIC AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY NEAR MIDNIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN INDICATED SO FAR WITH THIS SYSTEM. IF THE ACTIVITY CONTINUES ITS PRESENT MOVEMENT...IT WILL REACH THE CITIES OF KERRVILLE...LEAKEY...BRACKETTVILLE AND DEL RIO WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 13, 12:57 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ183>189-202>206-217>219-130730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1257 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 AT 1250 AM THIS MORNING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND EDWARDS PLATEAU. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM NEAR JUNCTION TO ROCKSPRINGS TO JUST NORTH OF DEL RIO. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS SO FAR PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND VERY DRAMATIC AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY NEAR MIDNIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN INDICATED SO FAR WITH THIS SYSTEM. IF THE ACTIVITY CONTINUES ITS PRESENT MOVEMENT...IT WILL REACH THE CITIES OF KERRVILLE...LEAKEY...BRACKETTVILLE AND DEL RIO WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 13, 1:00 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
TXZ183-130700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEL RIO TX 100 AM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 AT 1250 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY FROM SOUTHWEST OF COMSTOCK EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO NEAR ROCKSPRINS IN EDWARDS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED OVER LAKE AMISTAD ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THES STORMS SHOULD MOVE IN THE DEL RIO AREA IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.. SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN EASTERN VAL VERDE COULD FLOOD BRIEFLY. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN DEL RIO AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE CITY. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN ON LAKE AMISTAD SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR AS THESE STORMS APPROACH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | San Saba | 3 hr |
| May 13, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 65 min |
| May 13, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 58 min |
| May 13, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 48 min |
| May 13, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 55 min |
| May 13, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 55 min |
| May 13, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays | 32 min |
| May 13, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 8 min |
| May 13, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 70 min |
| May 13, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Wilson | 65 min |
| May 13, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 61 min |
| May 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| May 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 28 min |
| May 13, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | McMullen | 58 min |
| May 13, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 49 min |
| May 13, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 55 min |
| May 13, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Victoria | 65 min |
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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.