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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 10, 2000DeWitt County, Gonzales County, Lavaca County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2000, 6:25 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Gonzales County, Lavaca 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2000, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties DeWitt County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Lavaca County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1912 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 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
1912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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 102325
FFWEWX
TXC123-177-285-110200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
625 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GONZALES COUNTY
  LAVACA COUNTY
  DEWITT COUNTY

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE
  CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED
  AREA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE
  EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* WITH GROUNDS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS...THESE HEAVY
  RAINS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO
G&REAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING
WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.


LAT...LON 2937 9765 2906 9726 2942 9677 2954 9717

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis3 hr
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

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.