Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 230, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 105 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
- Oct 10, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 105 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 866 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 110315 FFWSAT TXC149-110500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1015 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING...EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...FAYETTE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER FAYETTE COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES ARE ESTIMATED AT JUST OVER AN INCH AN HOUR. SINCE THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS DAYS RAINS...MOST OF THE RAIN WILL RUN OFF CAUSING LOW WATER CROSSING TO QUICKLY FILL. 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. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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.
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, Oct 10, 5:15 PM CDT, 5 hours before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-111200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 515 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 1997 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... A STRONG TROPICAL DISTURBANCE OVER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WILL CONTINUE ITS SLOW NORTHWESTWARD MOVEMENT TONIGHT INTO SOUTH TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING POSSIBLE. A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. THE WATCH IS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM COTULLA TO UVALDE TO JUNCTION. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WILL AVERAGE FROM HALF AN INCH TO ONE INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEAR 3 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE. FOR SATURDAY...RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE NEAR HALF AN INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS NEAR 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. SOILS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH TEXAS ARE ALREADY SATURATED FROM RAINFALL FROM THE PAST FEW DAYS. ADDITIONAL RAIN TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL NOT SOAK IN...BUT RUN OFF RAPIDLY INTO ALREADY SWOLLEN OR FLOODED CREEKS...RIVERS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS...OR POND IN LOW-LYING FLAT AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION AND DO NOT CROSS OVER FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH WILL BE DEEPER THAN IT LOOKS. 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.
Local storm report, Oct 10, 7:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
745 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0646 PM 6 E FLATONIA TX HIGH WATER AT THE ENGLE/PRAHA
10/10/97 FAYETTE CROSSINGLocal storm report, Oct 10, 7:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX[
745 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE......EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..b..
0646 PM 6 E FLATONIA TX HIGH WATER AT THE ENGLE/PRAHA
10/10/97 FAYETTE CROSSINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes, Lavaca | 6 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.