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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 3, 20009 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 4:57 PM CST for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 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 3, 2000, 4:57 PM CST (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Nov 3, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lee County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-11-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1550 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
1550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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 032302
FFWEWX
TXC013-021-055-149-177-187-255-287-493-040300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
457 PM CST FRI NOV 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GONZALES COUNTY
  WILSON COUNTY
  BASTROP COUNTY
  ATASCOSA COUNTY
  LEE COUNTY
  GUADALUPE COUNTY
  CALDWELL COUNTY
  FAYETTE COUNTY
  KARNES COUNTY

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 5 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN A LARGE AREA FROM ATASCOSA AND KARNES COUNTIES NORTHEASTWARD
THROUGH THE SEGUIN...GONZALES AREAS AND THEN TO BASTROP...LA GRANGE
AND GIDDINGS AREAS.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING MOVING ACROSS THE SAME
AREAS REPEATEDLY.  MANY ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE FLOODED.  THIS
IS A VERY DANGEROUS LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION.

PEOPLE IN OR NEAR LOWLYING AREAS SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUNDS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID THE AREA IF AT ALL POSSIBLE...OTHERWISE DO
NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED OR BARICADED AREAS.


LAT...LON 2919 9879 2869 9879 2867 9830 2872 9803
          2877 9792 2881 9766 2905 9780 2945 9729
          2967 9719 2968 9691 2998 9663 3013 9691
          3029 9680 3056 9697 3039 9735 3017 9751
          2960 9820 2943 9808 2910 9837

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 2, 6:03 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXBlanco, Comal, Hays57 min
Nov 2, 7:12 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall4 hr
Nov 2, 10:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe and 4 more6 hr
Nov 3, 12:07 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Medina, Uvalde6 hr
Nov 3, 12:50 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr4 hr
Nov 3, 1:06 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real4 hr
Nov 3, 1:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie4 hr
Nov 3, 4:20 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde3 hr
Nov 3, 7:42 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Val Verde3 hr
Nov 3, 9:48 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis3 hr
Nov 3, 10:56 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real, Uvalde3 hr
Nov 3, 11:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop3 hr
Nov 3, 12:02 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr3 hr
Nov 3, 2:04 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real, Val Verde4 hr
Nov 3, 2:55 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr, Llano3 hr
Nov 3, 3:22 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis3 hr
Nov 3, 3:39 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
Nov 3, 5:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLlano4 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.