Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1997, 11:33 PM CDT for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1997, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1997, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hays County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 1633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 090433 FFWSAT TXC209-090730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1133 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...HAYS COUNTY AT 1130 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE INDICATED OVER WESTERN HAYS COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES WERE 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR WEST OF WIMBERLEY WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES OVER MUCH OF WESTERN HAYS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL BE OVER THE COUNTY FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR SO. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 116 min |
| Jun 8, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 4 hr |
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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.