Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1997, 11:04 PM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min. 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 14, 1997, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kinney County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 4724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 150405 FFWSAT TXC271-150600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1104 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KINNEY COUNTY AT 11 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN PARTS OF KINNEY COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WITH THESE STORMS ARE 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. PEOPLE IN KINNEY COUNTY CAN EXPECT RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WITH THESE STORMS WITH LOCALIZED 3 INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. 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. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 119 min |
| Jun 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 119 min |
| Jun 14, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick, Real, Uvalde | 116 min |
| Jun 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 116 min |
| Jun 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 1:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 4:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.