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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 2, 2000Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 2, 2000, 4:51 PM CST for Lee 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
Nov 2, 2000, 4:51 PM CST (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Nov 2, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 282 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-11-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-11-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 022252
FFWEWX
TXC287-030145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
451 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY

* UNTIL 745 PM CST

* AT 451 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF FEDOR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  LOW WATER CROSSINGS ON
  619 AND 696 WILL BE FLOODED FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL 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. V\EHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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, 4:19 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Kendall, Kerr3 hr
Nov 2, 4:48 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXKendall, Kerr27 min
Nov 2, 5:21 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco3 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.