Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2000, 9:17 PM CDT for Frio County, Texas. It was in force for 103 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2000, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 103 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 200218 FFWEWX TXC163-200400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 917 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... FRIO COUNTY * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT AT 915 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING...IN THE 1 TO 3 INCH PER HOUR RANGE...ACROSS MUCH OF FRIO COUNTY...WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL BE OUT OF BANKS AND FLOODING LOWLYING AREAS. SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND CROSSINGS FLOOD....MAKING THEM VERY DANGEROUS TO AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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 OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 60 min |
| May 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 42 min |
| May 19, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 65 min |
| May 19, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 50 min |
| May 19, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 64 min |
| May 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 62 min |
| May 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 56 min |
| May 19, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 100 min |
| May 19, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 2 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.