Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1999, 8:47 AM CST for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 1999, 8:47 AM CST (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1999, 11:45 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 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 181446 FFWSAT TXC171-181745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 847 AM CST THU MAR 18 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GILLESPIE COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 AM CST * AT 840 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHWESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NORTH OF THE WESTERN END OF THE PEDERNALES RIVER NEAR HARPER AND TRAIN NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE SAME AREA. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ACROSS WESTERN GILLESPIE COUNTY... ESPECIALLY IN THE HEADWATERS OF THE PEDERNALES RIVER...WILL FLOOD SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ENTER FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS AS THEY CAN BE DEADLY. A MINOR RISE DOWN THE PEDERNALES RIVER FROM THE HEADWATERS TO BELOW LBJ NATIONAL PARK IS EXPECTED. PARK VISITORS SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR RAINFALL AND RIVER STATEMENTS.
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, Mar 18, 5:30 AM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-182300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 530 AM CST THU MAR 18 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. A STRONG MOVING UPPER STORM SYSTEM OVER NEW MEXICO WAS MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD INTO WEST TEXAS. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS ALREADY MOVING INTO THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER REAL COUNTY. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS WHICH WILL BE VERY SLOW MOVING TODAY AND COULD HELP FOCUS HEAVY RAINS TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. AVERAGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM 1/2 TO 1 INCH WITH HIGHER TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE DUE TO THE EXPECTED SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT AND TRAINING OF STORMS FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. 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. FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN AREAS SURROUNDING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS, PLEASE REFER TO THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS FROM NWS OFFICES IN MIDLAND, SAN ANGELO, FORT WORTH, HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 5:30 AM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-182300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 530 AM CST THU MAR 18 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. A STRONG MOVING UPPER STORM SYSTEM OVER NEW MEXICO WAS MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD INTO WEST TEXAS. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS ALREADY MOVING INTO THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER REAL COUNTY. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS WHICH WILL BE VERY SLOW MOVING TODAY AND COULD HELP FOCUS HEAVY RAINS TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. AVERAGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM 1/2 TO 1 INCH WITH HIGHER TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE DUE TO THE EXPECTED SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT AND TRAINING OF STORMS FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. 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. FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN AREAS SURROUNDING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS, PLEASE REFER TO THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS FROM NWS OFFICES IN MIDLAND, SAN ANGELO, FORT WORTH, HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 9:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 61 min |
| Mar 17, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 59 min |
| Mar 17, 11:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 76 min |
| Mar 18, 2:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 72 min |
| Mar 18, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 5:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 110 min |
| Mar 18, 12:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 114 min |
| Mar 18, 2:49 PM CST | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.