Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1995, 1:53 AM CDT for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 1:53 AM CDT (06:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 110655 FFWSAT TXC029-110900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 153 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BEXAR COUNTY AT 150 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN BEXAR COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL RATES IN THE 2 INCH AN HOUR RANGE. 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, Jun 10, 10:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>192-202>206-110530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1042 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 5 AM CDT... AT 1030 PM CDT...A STRONG GUST FRONT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH THROUGH KINNEY AND EDWARDS COUNTY. THE GUST FRONT PRECEEDED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WHICH EXTENDED ACROSS THE NORTHERN REACHES OF THE HILL COUNTRY FROM NORTH OF DEL RIO EASTWARD TO ROCKSPRINGS TO MASON. ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY...THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5 AM CDT FOR THE HILL COUNTRY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE DAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AND ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MPH. THE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG LATE-SEASON COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY OVERNIGHT AND INTO SOUTH TEXAS DURING THE LATE MORNING HOURS. STAYED TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>192-202>206-110530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1042 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 5 AM CDT... AT 1030 PM CDT...A STRONG GUST FRONT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH THROUGH KINNEY AND EDWARDS COUNTY. THE GUST FRONT PRECEEDED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WHICH EXTENDED ACROSS THE NORTHERN REACHES OF THE HILL COUNTRY FROM NORTH OF DEL RIO EASTWARD TO ROCKSPRINGS TO MASON. ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY...THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5 AM CDT FOR THE HILL COUNTRY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE DAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AND ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MPH. THE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG LATE-SEASON COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY OVERNIGHT AND INTO SOUTH TEXAS DURING THE LATE MORNING HOURS. STAYED TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ171>173-184>192-202>206-218-110615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1212 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1210 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF BURNET TO FREDERICKSBURG TO UVALDE TO EAGLE PASS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREAS IN 1 TO 2 HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
TXZ171>173-184>192-202>206-218-110615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1212 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1210 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF BURNET TO FREDERICKSBURG TO UVALDE TO EAGLE PASS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREAS IN 1 TO 2 HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 1:09 AM CDT, 44 minutes before
TXZ172-173-187-189>194-202>208-217>219-228-110715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 109 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 105 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM GEORGETOWN TO AUSTIN TO SAN ANTONIO TO CARRIZO SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DIME TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN GILLESPIE COUNTY AND DIME SIZE HAIL 10 MILES WEST OF LLANO. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 1:14 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ172-173-187-189>194-202>208-217>219-228-110715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 109 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 105 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM GEORGETOWN TO AUSTIN TO SAN ANTONIO TO CARRIZO SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DIME TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN GILLESPIE COUNTY AND DIME SIZE HAIL 10 MILES WEST OF LLANO. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS" SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 1:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, La Salle | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad, Victoria | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Calhoun | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Goliad, Victoria | 117 min |
| Jun 11, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Calhoun | 117 min |
| Jun 11, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Webb | 65 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.