Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1994, 7:40 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1994, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 080040 FFWSAT TXC265-080345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 740 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...KERR COUNTY ...AT 735 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN KERR COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE NEAR THE CITY OF KERRVILLE AND IN THE WESTERN PART OF KERR COUNTY NEAR CAMP STEWARD. SOME AREAS IN THE IN THE WESTERN PART OF KERR COUNTY HAVE TOTALED 4 INCHES OF RAIN WITH DOPPLER RADAR SHOWING ESTIMATED AMOUNTS AS HIGH AS 6 INCHES IN EXTREME NORTHERN KERR COUNTY. CAMPERS AND SWIMMERS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RAIN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE OVER KERR COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM. 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.
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, Sep 7, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ184>189-204>206-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 545 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMSHAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 540 PM THE LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NORTH OF LEAKY NORTHEAST TO FREDRICKSBURG. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF BOERNE AND FROM NORTHERN REAL COUNTY INTO NORTHWESTERN KERR COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 5:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
TXZ184>189-204>206-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 545 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMSHAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 540 PM THE LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NORTH OF LEAKY NORTHEAST TO FREDRICKSBURG. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF BOERNE AND FROM NORTHERN REAL COUNTY INTO NORTHWESTERN KERR COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
TXZ187-205-184-189-186-204-185-203-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 622 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN KENDALL...KERR AND BANDERA COUNTIES... ...AT 617 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM BOERNE TO BANDERA WEST TO KERRVILLE....VANDERPOOL AND JUNCTION. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST EAST OF BANDERA AND WEST OF KERRVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND FLOODING OF LOW-WATER CROSSINGS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT KERR...KENDELL AND BANDERA COUNTIES AND MAY AFFECT THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM. KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO. LUNA
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 6:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
TXZ187-205-184-189-186-204-185-203-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 622 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN KENDALL...KERR AND BANDERA COUNTIES... ...AT 617 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM BOERNE TO BANDERA WEST TO KERRVILLE....VANDERPOOL AND JUNCTION. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST EAST OF BANDERA AND WEST OF KERRVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND FLOODING OF LOW-WATER CROSSINGS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT KERR...KENDELL AND BANDERA COUNTIES AND MAY AFFECT THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM. KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO. LUNA
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
TXZ188-080045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 639 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 636 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTHWEST OF KERRVILLE IN SOUTHWEST GILLESPIE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL SPREAD INTO WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN IN SOME AREAS. PEOPLE IN WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR HEAVY RAIN... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WIND. DELUGES OF RAIN MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSING AND LOW SPOTS IN ROADS. PEEK
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 7:25 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ155-171-188-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 725 PM CDT WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY... AT 715 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST THROUGH NORTHWEST OF LLANO AND WEST OF FREDERICKSBURG NEAR HARPER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SHORTLY AFTER 7 PM...THE HILL COUNTRY HAM RADIO WEATHER NET REPORTED BETWEEN 2 AND 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 45 MINUTES AT INTERSTATE 10 AND FM ROAD 479...THIS IS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF GILLESPIE COUNTY. PEOPLE IN LLANO...EXTREME SOUTHERN SAN SABA AND WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN. PEEK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 31 min |
| Sep 8, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 110 min |
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.