Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 219, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1997, 8:04 AM CDT for Llano 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 28, 1997, 8:04 AM CDT (13:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Llano County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 2115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 281303 FFWSAT TXC299-281500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 804 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN LLANO COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST THREE HOURS EAST OF SH 16 AND NORTH OF SH 29...AND 1.5 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 3 AM THIS MORNING. THE AREA OF SHOWERS CONTINUES TO SLOWLY REBUILD WEST TOWARD SH 16 WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS MOVE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. A CURRENT ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATE OF 1.6 INCHES AN HOUR WAS OCCURRING OVER PENNINGTON CREEK AND SANDY CREEK NORTH OF SH 29. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...OR LOW$ SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT TO ESCAPE RISING WATER DURING THREATENING RAINS.
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 28, 5:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-282300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING DUE TO AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND VERY MOIST AIR OVER THE SOUTH TEXAS. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL PRODUCE AVERAGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/2 INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP 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 UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-282300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING DUE TO AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND VERY MOIST AIR OVER THE SOUTH TEXAS. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL PRODUCE AVERAGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/2 INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP 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 UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 2 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.