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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2000, 11:52 PM CST for 6 counties in 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, 11:52 PM CST (05:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2000, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bastrop 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 060555 FFWEWX TXC021-123-149-177-285-287-060900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1152 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 FAYETTE COUNTY * UNTIL 300 AM CST * AT 1152 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF RAIN OVER PARTS OF GONZALES...BASTROP...LAVACA...DEWITT...LEE AND FAYETTE COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE RAINS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2903 9760 2902 9723 2999 9670 3038 9703
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, 8:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca and 1 more | 4 hr |
| 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 |
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.