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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 24, 1999Atascosa County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1999, 8:08 PM CDT for Atascosa 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
Jun 24, 1999, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1999, 11:10 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Atascosa County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2030 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 250110
FFWSAT
TXC013-250410-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
808 PM CDT THU JUN 24 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ATASCOSA IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1110 PM CDT

* AT 805 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG I-37 BETWEEN CAMPBELLTON
  AND JOURDANTON... MOVING LITTLE MOVEMENT.

* HEAVY RAINS HAVE FALLEN OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF ATASCOSA COUNTY
  SINCE 500 PM. AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED BY
  DOPPLER RADAR.


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. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT
AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT
DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXFrio79 min
Jun 25, 3:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXFayette, Gonzales, Lavaca119 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGonzales, Lavaca2 hr
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXCaldwell, Guadalupe2 hr
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXCaldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe60 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca60 min
Jun 25, 5:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKarnes, Wilson2 hr
Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.