Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 126, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1997, 3:29 PM CDT for Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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 10, 1997, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kinney County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
TXZ222-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 304 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1997 AT 3 PM...KARNES COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE CITY OF KENEDY IN KARNES COUNTY MVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD HAS NOT REACHED THE GROUND AND TORNADOES HAVE NOT BEEN REPORTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
TXZ222-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 304 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1997 AT 3 PM...LAVACA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE CITY OF KENEDY IN LAVACA COUNTY MVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD HAS NOT REACHED THE GROUND AND TORNADOES HAVE NOT BEEN REPORTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:07 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
TXZ222-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 304 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1997 AT 3 PM...LAVACA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE CITY OF KENEDY IN LAVACA COUNTY MVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD HAS NOT REACHED THE GROUND AND TORNADOES HAVE NOT BEEN REPORTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis | 116 min |
| Jun 10, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.