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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 9, 2000Comal County, Hays County, Travis County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT for Comal County, Hays County, Travis County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 9, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Comal County, TX, Hays County, TX, Travis County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 268 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2286 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
2286 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 092048
FFWEWX
TXC091-209-453-100030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
350 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COMAL COUNTY
  TRAVIS COUNTY
  HAYS COUNTY

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 345 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE
  TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO SPREAD NORTHWARD OVER MUCH
  OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING TRAVIS...HAYS
  ...AND COMAL COUNTIES.  WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED...THE
  ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS THROUGH
  THE EVENING.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 12:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays, Travis4 hr
Jun 9, 1:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal3 hr
Jun 9, 5:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXUvalde3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.