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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 5, 20007 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2000, 8:34 PM CST for 7 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 5, 2000, 8:34 PM CST (02:34 UTC)
Expired: Nov 6, 2000, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 060237
FFWEWX
TXC021-055-123-149-177-285-287-060700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
834 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GONZALES COUNTY
  BASTROP COUNTY
  LAVACA COUNTY
  DEWITT COUNTY
  LEE COUNTY
  CALDWELL COUNTY
  FAYETTE COUNTY

* UNTIL 1 AM CST

* AT 834 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE
AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY MOVING EASTWARD INTO
THE AREA.  RAIN ALSO WAS INCREASING FROM THE SOUTH.  DUE TO THE
SATURATED SOIL THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL PRODUCE RAPID FLOODING OF
LOWLYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS AND CAUSE STREAMS TO SWELL OUT OF THEIR
BANKS.

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.

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.


LAT...LON 2965 9761 2936 9785 2912 9760 2900 9773
          2884 9757 2895 9745 2890 9732 2914 9699
          2908 9693 2935 9660 2964 9691 2996 9659
_          3017 9683 3027 9672 3054 9697 3038 9735
          3021 9748 2988 9787

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 6:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio	4 hr
Nov 5, 7:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Hays, Travis, Williamson	4 hr
Nov 5, 7:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	39 min
Nov 5, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	55 min
Nov 5, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	81 min
Nov 5, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	57 min
Nov 5, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	54 min
Nov 5, 11:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca, Lee	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000 Every 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.