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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2000, 3:32 PM CST for Edwards County, Real 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 5, 2000, 3:32 PM CST (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 052135
FFWEWX
TXC137-385-060100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
332 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
REAL COUNTY
EDWARDS COUNTY
* UNTIL 7 PM CST
* AT 335 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS REAL
COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE
EXPECTED AND SOME RAINFALL TOTALS WILL EXCEED THREE INCHES. THIS
RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOWLYING AREAS...STREAMS AND ROADWAYS.
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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
LAT...LON 2964 10005 2964 9962 2991 9963 2991 9970
3010 9970 3010 10000The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 12:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 3:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 4:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 5 hr |
| Nov 5, 4:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 4:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 5:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 5 hr |
| Nov 5, 5:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 5:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Kendall | 4 hr |
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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.