Flash Flood Warning 166, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Issued

Jun 21, 1997, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)

Expired

Jun 21, 1997, 10:45 PM CDT

In force

6 hr

Issued by

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Bandera County, TX

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KSAT 212139
FFWSAT
TXC019-123-187-220345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
439 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BANDERA COUNTY...DE WITT COUNTY...GUADALUPE COUNTY
 
AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN
CONTINUING ACROSS DEWITT COUNTY. POLICE REPORT NUMEROUS ROADS ARE CLOSED
OR FLOODED AND ATLEAST ONE HOME IS FLOODED WITH RESCUE IN PROGRESS. MORE
HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO REDEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA WITH HOURLY RAINFALL
RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. RADAR ESTIMATED STORM TOTAL RAINFALL OF 6 TO 10
INCHES.
 
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
IN GUADALUPE COUNTY...2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
LOCATED FROM ZORN TO NEW BRAUNFELS TO SEGUIN AND SOUTH ALONG AND NEAR
123.  RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL NEAR 1 INCH PER HOUR.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY
RAIN MAY MOVE OUT THE HILL COUNTRY LATER THIS EVENING.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.
 
IN BANDERA COUNTY...HEAVY RAIN HAS DEVELOPED ONCE AGAIN FROM THE NORTH
OUT OF KERR COUNTY.  6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR BANDERA WITH RIVER
FLOODING ONGOING.  AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED AND WILL
PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FLOODING THIS EVENING.
 
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
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.
 
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.

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.