Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2000, 2:01 PM CDT for Edwards County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 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
- Oct 23, 2000, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Edwards County, TX, Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 231903
FFWEWX
TXC137-385-232000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
201 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
REAL COUNTY
EDWARDS COUNTY
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 201 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN OVER PARTS OF EDWARDS AND REAL COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
OCCASIONAL RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF
EDWARDS AND REAL COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR...FROM SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.
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 2964 10067 2966 9964 2991 9964 2992 9974
3007 9972 3006 9979 3026 9979 3026 10065The 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, 10:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 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, 2:59 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 |
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.