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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2000, 5:35 PM CST for Medina County, 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 5, 2000, 5:35 PM CST (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Medina County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 052338
FFWEWX
TXC325-060400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
535 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MEDINA COUNTY
* UNTIL 10 PM CST
* AT 535 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING EASTWARD INTO MEDINA
COUNTY. THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL FLOOD LOWLYING AREAS...ROADWAYS AND
CAUSE STREAMS TO SWELL OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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.
LAT...LON 2911 9940 2911 9883 2966 9882 2952 9897
2961 9902 2961 9942The 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, 3:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 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, 5:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Kendall | 4 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.