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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 28, 1995Bandera County, Kerr County, Real County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1995, 11:52 PM CDT for Bandera County, Kerr County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1995, 11:52 PM CDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bandera County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Real County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 290456
FFWSAT
TXC019-265-385-290800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1152 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BANDERA COUNTY...KERR COUNTY...REAL COUNTY
 
AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING AND
DEVELOPING OVER THE HILL COUNTRY ACROSS NORTHERN REAL...KERR...AND
BANDERA COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES OR MORE PER HOUR ARE
BEING ESTIMATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPPLER RADAR. THESE STORMS
WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WITH
HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
 
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.
 
AVOID ALREADY FLOODED AREAS.  TRAVELERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOODED ROADS.  IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...LEAVE IT AND MOVE
IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS AND OTHER
PEOPLE IN RECREATION AREAS ALONG CRhEEKS...STREAMS...AND RIVERS IN
THE WARNING AREA SHOULD MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

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

Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:34 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO, TX
1134 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    LAKE VICTOR               TX   PSBL TORNADO
06/28/95   BURNET                         ONE HOUSE DESTROYED AND
                                          ONE OUT BUILDING AND TREES
                                          DAMAGED.

0530 PM    HALLESTVILLE 10SE         TX   FUNNEL CLOUD SITED
06/28/95   LAVACA

0720 PM    COMSTOCK 20N              TX   BASEBALL SIZED HAIL
06/28/95   VAL VERDE

0815 PM    LA VERNIA 5SE             TX   FUNNEL CLOUD SITED
06/28/95   WILSON
0910 PM    SAN ANTONIO 20NE          TX   3/4 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   COMAL

1000 PM    ROUNDROCK                 TX   DIME SIZED HAIL
06/28/95   WILLIAMSON

1025 PM    CHINA GROVE               TX   1 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   BEXAR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	67 min
Jun 28, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal	56 min
Jun 28, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	56 min
Jun 28, 9:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	56 min
Jun 28, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	56 min
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet	2 hr
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	2 hr
Jun 28, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Wilson	55 min
Jun 28, 11:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Wilson	3 hr
Jun 28, 11:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco	2 hr
Jun 29, 12:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kendall	3 hr
Jun 29, 1:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina, Uvalde	3 hr
Jun 29, 2:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco	3 hr
Jun 29, 2:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	4 hr
Jun 29, 2:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	3 hr
Jun 29, 2:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kendall, Kerr, Real	3 hr
Jun 29, 3:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Wilson	3 hr
Jun 29, 4:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco	4 hr
Jun 29, 5:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	3 hr
Jun 29, 5:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	2 hr

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.