Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 9, 1994, 3:42 AM CST for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 9, 1994, 3:42 AM CST (09:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 9, 1994, 6:45 AM CST
- 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, 9.7 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
- 552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 090945 FFWSAT TXC265-091245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 342 AM CST FRI DEC 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN KERR COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST KERR COUNTY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KERR COUNTY DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS. FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1273 ALONG THE TURTLE CREEK DRAINAGE HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING ALSO FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1341 ALONG CYPRESS CREEK HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. AN ADDITIONAL REPORT OF FLOODING IN WEST CREEK 6 MILES SOUTH OF KERRVILLE WAS RECEIVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WITH UP TO 12 FEET OF WATER FLOWING THROUGH THE CREEK BED. HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS ADDING TO THE FLOOD WATERS. 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, Dec 8, 11:30 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>209-217>229-090630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1130 PM CST THU DEC 8 1994 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WAS MOVING SLOWLY THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY LATE THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM TELEGRAPH EASTWARD THROUGH FREDRICKSBURG AND AUSTIN. THE ACTIVITY WAS IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY ROCKSPRINGS TO LEAKEY TO BANDERA AND NORTH TO FREDRICKSBURG. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WERE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF KERRVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED POSSIBLE 1/2 INCH AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION IN THE ACTIVITY CLOSE TO KERRVILLE DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO EASE SLOWLY SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL PORTIONS BY DAYBREAK. RAIN AND A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY AS THE FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Dec 8, 11:33 PM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ184>189-202>209-217>229-090630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1130 PM CST THU DEC 8 1994 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WAS MOVING SLOWLY THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY LATE THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM TELEGRAPH EASTWARD THROUGH FREDRICKSBURG AND AUSTIN. THE ACTIVITY WAS IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY ROCKSPRINGS TO LEAKEY TO BANDERA AND NORTH TO FREDRICKSBURG. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WERE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF KERRVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED POSSIBLE 1/2 INCH AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION IN THE ACTIVITY CLOSE TO KERRVILLE DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO EASE SLOWLY SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL PORTIONS BY DAYBREAK. RAIN AND A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY AS THE FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA.
Nearby
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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.