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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2000, 10:36 AM CDT for Edwards 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
- Oct 23, 2000, 10:36 AM CDT (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 2397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 231535 FFWEWX TXC137-231900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1036 AM CDT MON OCT 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EDWARDS COUNTY * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 1026 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY OVER PARTS OF EDWARDS COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE AREA OF RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER EDWARDS COUNTY...AND MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. 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 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. LAT...LON 2970 10065 2972 10009 3023Y 9999 3027 10065
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 5:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 119 min |
| Oct 23, 5:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Frio, Medina | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 8:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall, Medina | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 59 min |
| Oct 23, 2:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
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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.