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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 29, 1995Gillespie County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1995, 2:09 AM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Gillespie County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2175 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 290713 RRA
FFWSAT
TXC171-291015-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CANCEL...CANCEL...CANCEL...CANCEL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
209 AM CDT MON MAY 29 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER 8SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

   ...SOUTHERN GILLESPIE COUNTY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb36 min
May 29, 12:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
May 29, 12:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWebb3 hr
May 29, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWebb3 hr
May 29, 12:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie2 hr
May 29, 1:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis117 min
May 29, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson3 hr
May 29, 2:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
May 29, 3:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet2 hr

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.