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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 17, 1999Travis County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1999, 10:41 PM CDT for Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 79 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
May 17, 1999, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1999, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
79 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Travis County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 281 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 455 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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

Local storm report, May 17, 9:56 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
951 PM CST MON MAY 17 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 PM    COMSTOCK                  TX   .5 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   VAL VERDE                      HWY 163 13 MI. N. OF
                                          COMSTOCK REPORTED BY
                                          COUNTY SD

0930 PM    BURNET                    TX   .5 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   BURNET                         MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY HAMS IN BURNET COUNTY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet58 min
May 17, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde36 min
May 17, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson59 min
May 17, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet32 min
May 17, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie61 min
May 17, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde63 min
May 17, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde31 min
May 17, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKinney, Val Verde31 min
May 17, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde17 min
May 17, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis79 min
May 17, 10:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie101 min
May 17, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell, Gonzales54 min
May 17, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe64 min
May 17, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca86 min
May 17, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKarnes, Wilson86 min
May 17, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar66 min
May 17, 11:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera54 min
May 18, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde60 min
May 18, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio64 min
May 18, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick, Zavala64 min

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.