Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 1994, 3:39 AM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 1994, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 1994, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 190842 FFWSAT TXC163-191045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 339 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...FRIO COUNTY AT 340 AM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FRIO COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS ESTIMATING HOURLY RAINFALL RATES AT NEAR 5 INCHES. THIS STORM COMPLEX WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH AND LIKELY CONTAINS GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. 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. 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 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, 1:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>207-217>221-190800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 146 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER UVALDE...EASTERN KENNEY AND NORTHERN ZAVALA COUNTIES. AT 140 AM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST UVALDE COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD POSSIBLY FELL JUST EAST OF UVALDE IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH INTO WESTERN MEDINA COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAIN, GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SMALL CREEKS COULD RAPIDLY REACH BANKFULL AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL FILL QUICKLY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS.
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>207-217>221-190800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 146 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER UVALDE...EASTERN KENNEY AND NORTHERN ZAVALA COUNTIES. AT 140 AM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST UVALDE COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD POSSIBLY FELL JUST EAST OF UVALDE IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH INTO WESTERN MEDINA COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAIN, GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SMALL CREEKS COULD RAPIDLY REACH BANKFULL AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL FILL QUICKLY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS.
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 2:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
TXZ155-156-171>173-190900 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 220 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER LLANO AND BURNET COUNTIES... AT 217 AM THERE WAS A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES EAST OF MASON TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BERTRAM. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE ENE AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN... AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. THERE WAS A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WHICH WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN SOUTHWEST OF HONDO. ALTHOUGH THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE HILL COUNTRY OR WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY SOME FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID ENTERING FLOODED HIGHWAY DIPS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS LIVING IN THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WALSH
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 2:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ155-156-171>173-190900 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 220 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER LLANO AND BURNET COUNTIES... AT 217 AM THERE WAS A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES EAST OF MASON TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BERTRAM. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE ENE AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN... AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. THERE WAS A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WHICH WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN SOUTHWEST OF HONDO. ALTHOUGH THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE HILL COUNTRY OR WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY SOME FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID ENTERING FLOODED HIGHWAY DIPS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS LIVING IN THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WALSH
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 3:30 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
TXZ155-156-171>173-191000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 330 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 ...SHOWERS OVER LAKE BUCHANAN DIMINISHING... AT 325 AM THERE WERE LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE BUCHANAN WHICH WERE DIMINISHING. THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MEDINA AND TO THE SOUTHWEST OF HONDO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WALSH WALSH
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 3:35 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
TXZ155-156-171>173-191000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX 330 AM CDT WED OCT 19 1994 ...SHOWERS OVER LAKE BUCHANAN DIMINISHING... AT 325 AM THERE WERE LIGHT TO MODERATE SH OWERS IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE BUCHANAN WHICH WERE DIMINISHING. THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MEDINA AND TO THE SOUTHWEST OF HONDO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WALSH WALSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 62 min |
| Oct 19, 7:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 8:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 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.