Flash Flood Warning 100, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Issued

Jun 6, 1997, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)

Expired

Jun 6, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Caldwell County, TX

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KSAT 062300
FFWSAT
TXC055-070200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
558 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...CALDWELL COUNTY
 
AT 558 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH
HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING WEST OF LOCKHART. THESE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EAST OVER CALDWELL COUNTY IN THE
NEXT HOUR...CAUSING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THE NEXT FEW
HOURS.
 
STRONG THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS AND SOME HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
 
AVOID ALREADY FLOODED AREAS.  TRAVELERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOODED ROADS.  IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...LEAVE IT AND MOVE
IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND IF YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
 
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 CREEKS...STREAMS...AND RIVERS IN
THE WARNING AREA SHOULD MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
 
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.

In the hours before

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-071030-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
532 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY FOR THE
HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS.  THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE STRONG WINDS AND FLASH
FLOODING...WITH DAMAGING HAIL POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.

A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS THIS EVENING AND INTERACTING WITH A MOIST...UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE
AND A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDRY.  ANOTHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON SATURDAY AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND
OF THUNDERSTORMS.  STEERING CURRENTS ARE WEAK...SO THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE SLOW-MOVING WHICH WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH SATURDAY WILL
AVERAGE 1/2 TO 1 INCH WITH LOCAL TOTALS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE.

THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF
THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS...
AND ADVISORIES.  THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED
ONLY IF UNFORECAST HAZARDOUSZ WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF FORECAST
HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS EXPECTED.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.