10 MOST SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENTS OF THE 1900S
FOR AUSTIN, DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO AND VICINITY

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
239 PM CST TUE DEC 28 1999

...10 MOST SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENTS OF THE 1900S
   FOR AUSTIN...DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO AND VICINITY...

SINCE ONE OF THE MAIN FOCUSES OF WEATHER IN CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INVOLVES PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND FLASH FLOODING...NOT ALL HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOOD
EVENTS ARE LISTED HERE.  MANY OTHER WEATHER EVENTS OF
SEASONAL SIGNIFICANCE ARE ALSO NOT LISTED HERE.  FOR MORE
DETAILS ON SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENTS ACROSS CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS IN THE PAST 100 YEARS...SEE THE
DOCUMENT POSTED ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO WEBSITE AT

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ewx/html/wxevent/1999/cen/100.htm

EVENTS LISTED BELOW ARE SHOWN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER...
FIRST STARTING WITH AUSTIN AND VICINITY...FOLLOWED BY
DEL RIO AND VICINITY...AND ENDING WITH SAN ANTONIO AND
VICINITY.


AUSTIN AND VICINITY...

1. SEPTEMBER 8 - 10... 1921 - THE REMNANTS OF A HURRICANE MOVED
      NORTHWARD FROM BEXAR COUNTY TO WILLIAMSON COUNTY ON THE
      9TH AND 10TH.  THE CENTER OF THE STORM BECAME STATIONARY
      OVER THRALL...TEXAS THAT NIGHT DROPPING 38.2 INCHES OF
      RAIN IN 24 HOURS ENDING AT 7 AM SEPTEMBER 10TH. IN 6
      HOURS...23.4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AND 31.8 INCHES OF RAIN
      FELL IN 12 HOURS.  STORM TOTAL RAIN AT THRALL WAS 39.7
      INCHES IN 36 HOURS. THIS STORM CAUSED THE MOST DEADLY
      FLOODS IN TEXAS WITH A TOTAL OF 215 FATALITIES.

2. MAY 4...1922 - A TORNADO STRUCK AUSTIN... TEXAS CAUSING 13
      FATALITIES AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES.

3. 1935 - MAY AND JUNE FLOODS.  HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING IN CENTRAL
      AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING AUSTIN.  9.21 INCHES OF
      RAIN IN MAY AND 9.71 INCHES IN JUNE 1935 FOR AUSTIN.
      IN JUNE OF 1935...HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING OCCURRED ACROSS
      PARTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY EAST TO AUSTIN AND ALSO IN
      THE UVALDE AND LA PRYOR AREAS.  RAINS AMOUNTING TO NEAR 20
      INCHES OCCURRED IN SOME PLACES IN EARLY TO MID JUNE 1935.
      EXTENSIVE FLOODING WAS OBSERVED ALONG THE LLANO... COLORADO
      AND PEDERNALES RIVERS...INCLUDING JUNCTION... LLANO...
      FREDERICKSBURG AND DOWNSTREAM TO AUSTIN.  EXTENSIVE FLOODING
      AFFECTED AUSTIN BY JUNE 14 AND 15...1935...WHERE THE
      COLORODO RIVER GOT UP TO JUST 1 FEET BELOW THE WORST
      RECORDED FLOOD FOR AUSTIN...THAT CAME IN JULY OF 1869.
      FLOODING ALONG THE LLANO RIVER WAS THE HIGHEST OF RECORD
      AT THAT TIME.

4. JANUARY 31...1949 - THE COLDEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF RECORD...
      -2 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...FOLLOWED BY A HIGH OF 33.
      AT BERGSTROM AFB THE LOW WAS -5 AND HIGH WAS 30 ON
      JANUARY 31...1949.  IN LATE JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY OF
      1951 AN ARCTIC OUTBREAK PRODUCING COLD OF LONG DURATION.
      LOW OF 7 FEBRUARY 2...1951 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT AND
      8 AT BERGSTROM AFB WAS OBSERVED.

5. 1951-56 LONG DROUGHT YEARS...PROBABLY DRIEST IN SEVERAL HUNDRED
      YEARS.  ALTHOUGH IT WAS A LONG DROUGHT...IT WAS BRIEFLY
      INTERRUPTED BY 2 FLOODS IN 1952 AND 1954.

6. 1981 FLOODS

      MAY 24...1981 - THE MEMORIAL DAY FLOOD...CAUSED BY A
      4 TO 10 INCH TORRENTIAL NIGHT TIME RAINS OVER AUSTIN...
      KILLED 13 PERSONS.

      AUGUST 30 - 31...1981 - THE REMNANTS OF A MINIMAL TROPICAL
      STORM PRODUCED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN 50 TO 70 MILES WIDE AND
      200 MILES LONG FROM SEGUIN TO NORTH OF HOUSTON.
      AT HALLETSVILLE...THE ENSUING FLOOD ON ROCKY CREEK PRODUCED
      A CREST OF 5 FEET ON THE TOWN SQUARE FLOODING THE
      COUNTY JAIL...19 PERCENT OF THE BUSINESSES...AND 70 PERCENT
      OF THE HOMES.  THE FLOOD...CALLED THE HALLETSVILLE FLOOD...
      KILLED 5 PERSONS.

7. IN THE 1980S...TWO SEVERE ARCTIC OUTBREAKS IN DECEMBER...

      DECEMBER 1983 - DECEMBER ARCTIC OUTBREAK COLDEST MONTH OF
      RECORD FOR SAN ANTONIO.  COLDEST DECEMBER OF RECORD FOR
      SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN/BERGSTROM.  2ND COLDEST DECEMBER
      FOR AUSTIN/CITY CLIMATE LOCATION AND FOR DEL RIO.  COLD
      WEATHER CAME IN MID DECEMBER AND LASTED THE REST OF
      THE MONTH.  BRIEF WARMUP THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 27
      WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER BLAST OF COLD AIR THE NIGHT
      OF THE 27TH AND EARLY MORNING THE 28TH.  RECORD NUMBER
      OF HOURS BELOW FREEZING IN AUSTIN OF 140 HOURS
      DEC. 21 TO 27...1983.  IN THE DECEMBER 1989 FREEZE -
      THE LOWEST DECEMBER TEMPERATURE FOR AUSTIN CAME AT
      4 DEGREES ON DECEMBER 23RD.  THE HIGHEST SEA LEVEL
      PRESSURE TIED OR EXCEEDED AT MANY LOCATIONS ON
      DECEMBER 23RD.  THIS WAS THE 2ND MAJOR FREEZE OF
      THE 1980S.  THE 1989 FREEZE PRODUCED LOWER
      TEMPERATURES FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
      TEXAS...HOWEVER IT DID NOT LAST AS LONG AS THE
      DECEMBER 1983 FREEZE.  AFTER THE DECEMBER 1983
      FREEZE COLD WEATHER CONTINUED INTO JANUARY AND
      FEBRUARY OF 1984.  AFTER THE DECEMBER 1989 FREEZE...
      MILD CONDITIONS FOLLOWED FROM JANUARY TO MARCH OF 1990.

8. DECEMBER 18 - 23...1991 - STEADY RAINS FROM SAN ANTONIO NORTHWARD
      TO NORTH OF AUSTIN PRODUCED MAJOR FLOODING ACROSS ALL OF
      CREEKS AND RIVERS FROM THE SAN ANTONIO ON THE SOUTH TO THE
      BRAZOS ON THE NORTH.  THE EXTENSIVE FLOODS FROM THE
      HIGHLAND LAKES TO THE COAST CAUSED TREMENDOUS LOSS OF
      PROPERTY.  AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO RECORDED THEIR WETTEST
      DECEMBER ON RECORD.

9. MAY 27...1997 - THE JARRELL TORNADO...A RARE F5 TORNADO...CUT
      ACROSS JARRELL...TEXAS LEVELING THE AREA IN ITS PATH.
      IT KILLED 27 PERSONS IN JARRELL...1 IN CEDER PARK AND
      1 IN PERDENALES VALLEY.  THE SYSTEM SPAWNED WIDESPREAD
      SEVERE WEATHER WITH HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
      FLASH FLOODING ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

10. OCTOBER 17 - 18...1998 - TORRENTIAL RAINS FROM TRAVIS COUNTY
      SOUTHWARD PRODUCED DAMAGING FLOODS IN ONION CREEK...
      THE COLORADO...SAN MARCOS...GUADALUPE...AND SAN ANTONIO
      RIVERS.  LESSER FLOODING OCCURRED UPSTREAM OF THE
      HILL COUNTRY DAMS.  A 35 INCH RAINFALL CENTER OCCURRED
      A COUPLE OF MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN MARCOS.
      THIRTY ONE PERSONS LOST THEIR LIVES WITH THIS EVENT.


DEL RIO AND VICINITY...

1. 1914 - THE WETTEST YEAR OF RECORD FOR DEL RIO WITH 37.75 INCHES
      OF PRECIPITATION.

2. APRIL 1927 - AN F5 TORNADO STRUCK ROCKSPRINGS...TEXAS DESTROYING
      MOST OF THE TOWN.  THE TORNADO...OVER 1 MILE WIDE...CAUSED 72
      FATALITIES IN ROCKSPRINGS AND 2 IN LEAKEY.

3. MAY AND JUNE 1935 - MAY AND JUNE...1935 FLOODS.  HEAVY RAINS AND
      FLOODING IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING THE DEL RIO
      AREA.  FOR DEL RIO MAY 1935 BROUGHT 4.89 INCHES OF
      RAIN...AND JUNE HAD 13.71 INCHES.  ON MAY 31...1935 VERY HEAVY
      RAINS NEAR D' HANIS IN MEDINA COUNTY OF 22 TO 24 INCHES OF
      RAIN IN ONLY 2 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES.  THE HEAVIEST RAINS
      OCCURRED AT WOODWARD RANCH ABOUT 17 MILES ABOVE D' HANIS
      ON THE SECO CREEK.  EXTENSIVE FLOODING OCCURRED ALONG
      SECO CREEK.

      IN JUNE OF 1935...HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING OCCURRED ACROSS
      PARTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY EAST TO AUSTIN AND ALSO
      IN THE UVALDE AND LA PRYOR AREAS.  RAINS AMOUNTING TO
      NEAR 20 INCHES OCCURRED IN SOME PLACES IN EARLY TO
      MID JUNE 1935.  IN MID JUNE OF 1935...HEAVY RAINS
      STRUCK ON THE WEST NUECES AND NUECES RIVER PLUS SYCAMORE
      CREEK.  FLOODING WAS NOTED FROM NORTH OF BRACKETVILLE TO
      ALONG SYCAMORE CREEK TO THE RIO GRANDE...A FEW MILES
      BELOW DEL RIO...AND EAST TO UVALDE.  RAINS IN UVALDE
      ON JUNE 15...1935 CAME IN WITH 12.5 INCHES IN
      12 HOURS AND 17.6 INCHES IN 24 HOURS.

4. JANUARY 31...1949 - COLD ARCTIC OUTBREAK.  LOW OF 17 AND HIGH OF
      40 ON JANUARY 31ST IN DEL RIO.  IN LATE JANUARY AND EARLY
      FEBRUARY 1951 AN ARCTIC OUTBREAK PRODUCED COLD OF LONG
      DURATION.  THE LOW OF 11 THAT OCCURRED IN DEL RIO ON
      FEBRUARY 2...1951 WAS THE 2ND COLDEST LOW OF RECORD FOR
      DEL RIO.  THE COLDEST OF RECORD FOR DEL RIO CAME DECEMBER 23...
      1989 WHEN THE LOW WAS 10.

5. 1951-56 LONG DROUGHT YEARS...PROBABLY DRIEST IN SEVERAL HUNDRED
      YEARS.  ALTHOUGH IT WAS A LONG DROUGHT...IT WAS BRIEFLY
      INTERRUPTED BY 2 FLOODS IN 1952 AND 1954.

6. JUNE 1954 - IN THE MIST OF THE ONGOING 1951-56 DROUGHT...THE
      REMNANTS OF HURRICANE ALICE MOVED NORTHWESTWARD ALONG THE RIO
      GRANDE RIVER TO WEST AND NORTH OF DEL RIO DROPPING TORRENTIAL
      RAINS IN EXCESS OF 35 INCHES.  THE ENSUING FLOOD WAS THE FLOOD
      OF RECORD FOR THE RIO GRANDE WITH 1.1 MILLION CFS SURGING
      THROUGH DEL RIO AND TAKING EVERY RAILROAD AND TRAFFIC
      BRIDGE FROM DEL RIO TO LAREDO.  IT FILLED THE NEWLY
      CONSTRUCTED FALCON DAM RESERVOIR IN A MATTER OF WEEKS.

7. IN THE 1980S...TWO SEVERE ARCTIC OUTBREAKS IN DECEMBER...

      DECEMBER 1983 - DECEMBER ARCTIC OUTBREAK COLDEST MONTH OF
      RECORD FOR SAN ANTONIO.  COLDEST DECEMBER OF RECORD FOR
      SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN/BERGSTROM.  2ND COLDEST DECEMBER
      FOR AUSTIN/CITY CLIMATE LOCATION AND FOR DEL RIO.  COLD
      WEATHER CAME IN MID DECEMBER AND LASTED THE REST OF
      THE MONTH.  BRIEF WARMUP THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 27
      WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER BLAST OF COLD AIR THE NIGHT
      OF THE 27TH AND EARLY MORNING THE 28TH.  RECORD NUMBER
      OF HOURS BELOW FREEZING IN AUSTIN OF 140 HOURS
      DEC. 21 TO 27...1983.

      DECEMBER 1989 FREEZE - LOWEST ALL TIME LOW OF RECORD
      AND LOWEST DECEMBER TEMPERATURE FOR DEL RIO OF 10 ON
      DECEMBER 23RD.  HIGHEST SEA LEVEL PRESSURE TIED OR
      EXCEEDED AT MANY LOCATIONS ON DECEMBER 23RD.  THIS
      WAS THE 2ND MAJOR FREEZE OF THE 1980S.  THE 1989 FREEZE
      PRODUCED LOWER TEMPERATURES FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND
      SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...HOWEVER IT DID NOT LAST AS LONG AS THE
      DECEMBER 1983 FREEZE.  AFTER THE DECEMBER 1983
      FREEZE COLD WEATHER CONTINUED INTO JANUARY AND
      FEBRUARY OF 1984.  AFTER THE DECEMBER 1989 FREEZE...
      MILD CONDITIONS FOLLOWED FROM JANUARY TO MARCH OF 1990.

8. JANUARY 1985 - RECORD SNOWFALL OCCURRED FROM DEL RIO EASTWARD TO
      SAN ANTONIO.  DEL RIO RECORDED 8.5 INCHES OF SNOW.
      NEARLY A YEAR LATER ANOTHER HEAVY SNOW EVENT CAME
      TO DEL RIO JANUARY 7TH AND 8TH...1986...WHEN 8.2 INCHES
      OF SNOW FELL.

9. SUMMER OF 1998 - 69 CONTINUOUS DAYS OF OVER 100 DEGREE RECORDED
      IN DEL RIO...HOTTER THAN TEMPERATURES RECORDED IN 1980...THE
      PREVIOUS LONG HOT SPELL.

10. AUGUST 22 TO 24...1998 - TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY MOVED INLAND
      ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS DROPPING TORRENTIAL RAINS.  ON
      AUGUST 22 AND 23...IT MOVED INTO THE DEL RIO AREA
      DROPPING 17.03 INCHES OF RAIN AT DEL RIO... MOST OF IT
      OCCURRING WITHIN A 12 HOUR PERIOD.  THE ENSUING
      FLASH FLOOD DOWN SAN FELIPE CREEK DEVASTATING THE COMMUNITY
      ALONG THE CREEK AND CAUSING 9 FATALITIES.  ALL RIVERS AND
      CREEKS FROM HONDO WESTWARD EXPERIENCED FLOODING FROM THIS
      EVENT.


SAN ANTONIO AND VICINITY...

1. SEPTEMBER 9... 1921 - THE REMNANTS OF A HURRICANE MOVED OVER
      SAN ANTONIO DROPPING 18 INCHES OF RAIN IN NORTHERN BEXAR
      COUNTY.   THE ENSUING FLOOD WAVE DOWN OLMOS AND
      OTHER AREA CREEKS INUNDATED DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO WITH
      12 FEET OF WATER.  51 FATALITIES OCCURRED THAT NIGHT
      IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.  THE CENTER OF THE STORM
      BECAME STATIONARY OVER THRALL...DROPPING 38.2 INCHES OF
      RAIN IN 24 HOURS ENDING AT 7 AM SEPTEMBER 10TH. IN 6
      HOURS...23.4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AND 31.8 INCHES OF RAIN
      FELL IN 12 HOURS. STORM TOTAL RAIN AT THRALL WAS 39.7
      INCHES IN 36 HOURS. THIS STORM CAUSED THE MOST DEADLY
      FLOODS IN TEXAS WITH A TOTAL OF 215 FATALITIES.

2. MARCH TO JUNE 1935 - MARCH 5...1935 - VERY POWERFUL HAIL/WIND
      STORM AFFECTED SAN ANTONIO.  ONE MILLION DOLLARS PROPERTY
      DAMAGE.  MAY AND JUNE...1935 FLOODS.  HEAVY RAINS AND
      FLOODING IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING AUSTIN AND
      SAN ANTONIO.  FOR SAN ANTONIO MAY 1935 BROUGHT 14.07
      INCHES OF RAIN...WETTEST MAY OF RECORD...AND JUNE HAD
      8.41 INCHES.  AFTER ONE EPISODE OF HEAVY RAINS IN
      MAY 1935...WATER GOT INTO STORES ON ALAMO PLAZA IN
      SAN ANTONIO.  ON MAY 31...1935 VERY HEAVY RAINS NEAR
      D' HANIS IN MEDINA COUNTY OF 22 TO 24 INCHES OF
      RAIN IN ONLY 2 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES.  THE HEAVIEST RAINS
      OCCURRED AT WOODWARD RANCH ABOUT 17 MILES ABOVE D' HANIS
      ON THE SECO CREEK.  EXTENSIVE FLOODING OCCURRED ALONG
      SECO CREEK.

      IN JUNE OF 1935...HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING OCCURRED ACROSS
      PARTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY EAST TO AUSTIN AND ALSO
      IN THE UVALDE AND LA PRYOR AREAS.  RAINS AMOUNTING TO
      NEAR 20 INCHES OCCURRED IN SOME PLACES IN EARLY TO
      MID JUNE 1935.  WEST OF SAN ANTONIO IN MID JUNE OF
      1935...HEAVY RAINS STRUCK ON THE WEST NUECES AND
      NUECES RIVER PLUS SYCAMORE CREEK.  FLOODING WAS NOTED
      FROM NORTH OF BRACKETVILLE TO ALONG SYCAMORE CREEK TO
      THE RIO GRANDE...A FEW MILES BELOW DEL RIO...AND EAST
      TO UVALDE.  RAINS IN UVALDE ON JUNE 15...1935 CAME IN
      WITH 12.5 INCHES IN 12 HOURS AND 17.6 INCHES IN 24 HOURS.

3. JANUARY 31...1949 - ZERO DEGREES AT SAN ANTONIO...THE COLDEST
      TEMPERATURE OF RECORD IN SAN ANTONIO...OCCURRED IN THE
      EARLY MORNING HOURS OF JANUARY 31...1949...WITH SNOW ON THE
      GROUND.  THE HIGH THAT DAY WAS 38.  IN LATE JANUARY AND EARLY
      FEBRUARY OF 1951 AN ARCTIC OUTBREAK PRODUCED COLD OF
      LONG DURATION...LONGEST BELOW 32 FOR SAN ANTONIO.  TOTAL TIME
      BELOW FREEZING FOR SAN ANTONIO WAS 108 HOURS AND 28 MIN.
      FROM MIDNIGHT JAN. 29 TO 12:28 PM FEB. 2...1951.  LOW OF 6
      FEBRUARY 2...1951 WAS NOT REACHED AGAIN IN SAN ANTONIO UNTIL
      DECEMBER 23...1989.

4. 1951-56 LONG DROUGHT YEARS...PROBABLY DRIEST IN SEVERAL HUNDRED
      YEARS.  ALTHOUGH IT WAS A LONG DROUGHT...IT WAS BRIEFLY
      INTERRUPTED BY 2 FLOODS IN 1952 AND 1954.

5. IN THE 1970S...TWO MAJOR FLOODS

      MAY 11...1972 - HEAVY RAINS OVER EASTERN COMAL COUNTY BETWEEN
      8 PM AND MIDNIGHT CAUSED A DEVASTATING FLOOD ON THE GUADALUPE
      RIVER AT NEW BRAUNFELS... TEXAS.  SIXTEEN AND A HALF INCHES
      WERE RECORDED HALF WAY BETWEEN CANYON DAM AND NEW BRAUNFELS
      ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER WATERSHED.  WIDE SPREAD DAMAGE TO
      HOMES AND BUSINESS OCCURRED AS THE FLOOD WAVE MOVED
      DOWNSTREAM THROUGH LAKE DUNLAP AND LAKE MCQUEENEY.
      FIFTEEN PERSONS DROWNED AND DAMAGE REACHED
      INTO THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

      AUGUST 1978 - AUGUST HILL COUNTRY FLOODS. THE REMNANTS OF
      TROPICAL STORM AMELIA CAUSED TRAGIC AND DISSASTROUS FLOODS OVER
      THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. 48 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT MEDINA IN 52
      HOURS AND 27 FATALITIES IN THE HILL COUNTRY.  HEAVY RAINS AND
      FLOODS MOVED TO NEAR ALBANY IN NORTH TEXAS, WHERE 8 FATALITIES
      OCCURRED.

6. LATE WINTER TO SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER OF 1973 - STORMY PERIOD
      THAT BROUGHT SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODS. AFTER A SNOW IN
      JANUARY AND ANOTHER IN FEBRUARY...SEVERE WEATHER FOLLOWED
      IN MARCH WITH A TRAGIC TORNADO AT BURNET.  ON MARCH 10...1973
      THE BURNET TORNADO DAMAGED OR DESTROYED 40 BUSINESSES AND
      161 HOMES.  STORMY WEATHER CONTINUED INTO APRIL AND PART
      OF MAY.  ON APRIL 15...1973 AN F4 TORNADO CUT A SWATCH
      ACROSS PEARSALL...TEXAS KILLING 5 PERSONS AS IT CROSSED
      INTERSTATE 35.  ANOTHER TORNADO...AN F2...CUT ACROSS
      MEDINA...TEXAS THE SAME DAY.

7. IN THE 1980S...TWO SEVERE ARCTIC OUTBREAKS IN DECEMBER...

      DECEMBER 1983 - DECEMBER ARCTIC OUTBREAK COLDEST MONTH OF
      RECORD FOR SAN ANTONIO.  COLDEST DECEMBER OF RECORD FOR
      SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN/BERGSTROM.  2ND COLDEST DECEMBER
      FOR AUSTIN/CITY CLIMATE LOCATION AND FOR DEL RIO.  COLD
      WEATHER CAME IN MID DECEMBER AND LASTED THE REST OF
      THE MONTH.  BRIEF WARMUP THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 27
      WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER BLAST OF COLD AIR THE NIGHT
      OF THE 27TH AND EARLY MORNING THE 28TH.  RECORD NUMBER
      OF HOURS BELOW FREEZING IN AUSTIN OF 140 HOURS
      DEC. 21 TO 27...1983.  IN THE DECEMBER 1989 FREEZE - LOWEST
      ALL TIME LOW OF RECORD AND LOWEST DECEMBER TEMPERATURE
      FOR DEL RIO OF 10 ON DECEMBER 23RD. LOWEST DECEMBER LOW
      OF RECORD FOR AUSTIN...4...AND SAN ANTONIO...6...ALSO
      ON DECEMBER 23RD.  HIGHEST SEA LEVEL PRESSURE TIED OR
      EXCEEDED AT MANY LOCATIONS ON DECEMBER 23RD.  THIS WAS
      THE 2ND MAJOR FREEZE OF THE 1980S.  THE 1989 FREEZE
      PRODUCED LOWER TEMPERATURES FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND
      SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...HOWEVER IT DID NOT LAST AS LONG
      AS THE DECEMBER 1983 FREEZE.  AFTER THE DECEMBER 1983
      FREEZE COLD WEATHER CONTINUED INTO JANUARY AND
      FEBRUARY OF 1984.  AFTER THE DECEMBER 1989 FREEZE...
      MILD CONDITIONS FOLLOWED FROM JANUARY TO MARCH OF 1990.

8. JANUARY 1985 - RECORD SNOWS FALLS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM
      DEL RIO TO SAN ANTONIO WITH SAN ANTONIO RECEIVING 13.5
      INCHES...VIRTUALLY PARALYZING THE CITY.

9. 1987 FLOODS

      1987 MAY TO JUNE FLOODS.  A PERIOD OF VERY WET WEATHER FROM
      MAY 13 TO JUNE 12, 1987.  WIDESPREAD FLOODING OVER THE
      HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  FOR THAT TIME IN
      HISTORY...A 30 DAY OFFICIAL RAIN RECORD FOR SAN ANTONIO
      OF 18.45 INCHES...LATER BROKEN IN OCTOBER 1998.

      JULY 17...1987 - OVERNIGHT TORRENTIAL RAINS ON THE UPPER
      GUADALUPE RIVER CAUSED A FLOOD WAVE TO MOVE DOWNSTREAM.
      THE FLOOD WAVE CAUGHT A CHURCH CAMP SCHOOL BUS TRYING
      TO LEAVE THE PROPERTY.  OUT OF 40 STUDENTS...10 LOST
      THEIR LIVES IN THIS TRAGIC INCIDENT.

10. 1990S FLOODS

      DECEMBER 18 - 23...1991 - STEADY RAINS FROM SAN ANTONIO
      NORTHWARD TO NORTH OF AUSTIN PRODUCED MAJOR FLOODING
      ACROSS ALL OF CREEKS AND RIVERS FROM THE SAN ANTONIO ON
      THE SOUTH TO THE BRAZOS ON THE NORTH.  THE EXTENSIVE
      FLOODS FROM THE HIGHLAND LAKES TO THE COAST CAUSED
      TREMENDOUS LOSS OF PROPERTY.  AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO
      RECORDED THEIR WETTEST DECEMBER ON RECORD.

      OCTOBER 17 - 18... 1998 - TORRENTIAL RAINS ACROSS
      BEXAR COUNTY NORTHWARD TO TRAVIS COUNTY CAUSED SEVERE
      FLOODING ON OLMOS...LEON...AND SALADO CREEKS IN
      SAN ANTONIO. THE SAN ANTONIO...GUADALUPE...SAN MARCOS...
      COLORADO RIVERS AND TRIBUTARIES EXPERIENCED A MAJOR
      FLOOD. THIRTY ONE PERSONS DROWNED...7 IN SAN ANTONIO.