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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT for 5 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 18, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 182220 FFWEWX TXC137-271-385-463-465-190100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 515 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... REAL COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY UVALDE COUNTY VAL VERDE COUNTY * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 515 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTH ACROSS UVALDE COUNTY INTO REAL COUNTY AND ANOTHER BAND ABOUT TO MOVE INTO KINNEY COUNTY AND THEN INTO VAL VERDE COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT THE FOLLOWING ROADS ARE CLOSED...IN VAL VERDE COUNTY...STATE ROAD 163...IN EDWARDS COUNTY 674...2630 AND 2995...IN KINNEY COUNTY...674...IN REAL COUNTY...STATE ROAD 55. IN EDWARDS COUNTY...55 NORTH AND 377 SOUTH HAVE REOPENED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RwELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. LAT...LON 2946 10061 2930 9994 3006 9981 3024 10098
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 4 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.