Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 2, 2000, 4:19 PM CST for Bandera County, Kendall County, Kerr 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
- Nov 2, 2000, 4:19 PM CST (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bandera County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 022222 FFWEWX TXC019-259-265-030115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 419 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KENDALL COUNTY KERR COUNTY BANDERA COUNTY * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 419 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES WEST OF MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL FALL OVER THE NEXT 3 HOURS. HEAVIEST RAINS WILL OCCUR BETWEEN KERRVILLE AND COMFORT THRU 6 PM. THIS WILL FLOOD LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAKING TRAVEL DANGEROUS. LAT...LON 2977 9963 2966 9915 3005 9854 3013 9920
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 2, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
245 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000
NUMBER OF FACTORS COMING INTO PLAY THIS AFTERNOON THAT HAS RESULTED
IN THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT INTO FRI. WK NE-SW ORIENTED
FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY
WITH VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AMS(LAPS LI'S -6 TO -8) SOUTH OF THE FNT.
PW'S FORECAST TO CONT WELL ABOVE NORMAL IN THE 1.5 TO NR 2 INCHES
FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS WITH AN INVERTED TROF/CDFNT FORMING FRI
AFTN/EVENING. SWLY FLOW ALOFT NEARLY PARALLEL TO THE SFC BOUNDARY
LIKELY TO RESULT IN TRAINING ECHOES ALONG THE BOUNDARY. IN ADDITION
THREAT OF SVR AS STG SUBTRPL JET PUNCHES NEWD FM MEX INTO W CNTRL TX
OVERNIGHT...WITH MUCH OF CWA IN RRQ OF JET MAX THRU THE EVENING AS
PER ETA. APPEARS THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN TO CONT THRU FRI NIGHT AS SFC
BOUNDARY GETS PUSHED BACK THRU THE CWA BEHIND BUILDING SFC RDG AND
PERHAPS A TEMPORARY DECREASE IN POPS FROM THE WEST SATURDAY...BEFORE
OVERRUNNING RESUMES SUN/MON. ANOTHER WET CDFNT TUE AS ANOTHER LOW
LAT LOW KICKS OUT NEWD FROM NRN MEX INTO TX WED/THU.
WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES EXPECTED ACROSS WATCH
AREA NEXT 12-24 HOURS WITH ISOLD 4 TO 6 INCHES. FFA WILL BE ISSUED
FOR ALL BUT THREE SWRN COUNTIES WHERE FLASH FLOOD GUID NUMBERS
REMAIN RELATIVELY HIGH.
PRELIMS...
AUS 68/78 63/68 8887
SAT 71/79 65/72 8887
DR/T 65/74 59/69 8876
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH S CNTRL TX AND HILL COUNTRY THRU FRI
MORNING.
RIVER FLOOD WATCH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TX THRU FRI EVENING.
SEVERE TSTM WATCH UNTIL 6 PM CST.
01/13The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 56 min |
| Nov 2, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 58 min |
| Nov 2, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 62 min |
| Nov 2, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 63 min |
| Nov 2, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 53 min |
| Nov 2, 3:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 59 min |
| Nov 2, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 27 min |
| Nov 2, 4:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 5:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 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.