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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 9, 20006 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Travis County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 253 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 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1706 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-10The 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
1706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 100030
FFWEWX
TXC021-055-091-187-209-453-100300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COMAL COUNTY
  BASTROP COUNTY
  TRAVIS COUNTY
  HAYS COUNTY
  GUADALUPE COUNTY
  CALDWELL COUNTY

* UNTIL 10 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA
  OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT
  AROUND 15 MPH ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE STRONGER
  THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OVER 2 INCHES PER HOUR.

* RAINFALL TOTALS OVER THE WARNED AREA SINCE WEDNESDAY HAVE EXCEEDED
  6 INCHES IN A FEW AREAS WITH LARGE AREAS OF 4 TO 6 INCH RAINFALL
  AMOUNTS ESTIMATED BY RADAR. THESE HEAVY RAINFALL RATES ARE
  COMBINING WITH THE WATER FROM PREVIOUS RAINS TO PRODUCE FLASH
  FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.

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 HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.


LAT...LON 2978 9829 2955 9792 3023 9713 3044 9788

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bexar, Comal3 hr
Jun 10, 2:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilson3 hr
Jun 10, 2:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXMedina3 hr
Jun 10, 3:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe3 hr
Jun 10, 4:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Uvalde3 hr
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe3 hr
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXMedina2 hr
Jun 10, 6:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca3 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.