Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 1995, 12:55 AM CST for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1995, 12:55 AM CST (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1995, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 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, 6.9 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
- 1127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 130658 FFWSAT TXC265-131100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX 1255 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...KERR COUNTY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL ACROSS KERR COUNTY. AT 1250 AM THE SHERRIFS OFFICE IN KERR COUNTY INDICATED THAT SEVERAL ROADS HAD BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. UP TO 2 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AND ANOTHER 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. HIGHWAY 39 WAS CLOSED...HIGHWAY 16 NORTH OF KERRVILLE WAS CLOSED AND TOWN CREEK RD WAS CLOSED. AS THE RAIN CONTINUES MORE ROADS COULD BE CLOSED AND TRAVEL BECOME EVEN MORE DANGEROUS. 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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 67 min |
| Mar 12, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 68 min |
| Mar 12, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 11:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, La Salle | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 55 min |
| Mar 12, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 69 min |
| Mar 13, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Goliad | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 3:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 50 min |
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.