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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 2, 2000Bandera County, Kendall County, Kerr County, Texas

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.

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-11-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 463 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-11-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

01/13

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 2, 2:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Kendall56 min
Nov 2, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell, Gonzales58 min
Nov 2, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Travis62 min
Nov 2, 3:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays63 min
Nov 2, 3:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Kerr53 min
Nov 2, 3:39 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis3 hr
Nov 2, 4:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays, Travis59 min
Nov 2, 4:48 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXKendall, Kerr27 min
Nov 2, 4:51 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLee3 hr
Nov 2, 5:21 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco3 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.