Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 5:20 AM CDT for Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 5:20 AM CDT (10:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Travis County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 4610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 291021 FFWSAT TXC453-291300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 520 AM CDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...TRAVIS COUNTY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER TRAVIS COUNTY AT 520 AM THIS MORNING. EARLIER THE TRAVIS COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT MANY LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN THE COUNTY WERE FLOODED. CONTINUED RAINS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL RUNOFF AND FLOODING. AVOID ALREADY FLOODED AREAS. TRAVELERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...LEAVE IT AND MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND. IN THE PAST MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS HAVE OCCURRED FROM PEOPLE DRIVING AUTOMOBILES THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. FLOOD PRONE URBAN AREAS FILL WITH WATER QUICKLY. CLOGGED STORM DRAINS MAY CAUSE OTHER AREAS TO FLOOD. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS AND STAY AWAY FROM STORM DRAINS.
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, 5 hours 46 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 BEXARThe 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 28, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 3 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, 5:31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.