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Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 23, 20005 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 23, 2000, 10:31 PM CST for 5 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 23, 2000, 10:31 PM CST (04:31 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 327 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 240437
FFWEWX
TXC123-149-255-285-287-240730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1031 PM CST THU NOV 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAVACA COUNTY
  DEWITT COUNTY
  LEE COUNTY
  FAYETTE COUNTY
  KARNES COUNTY

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1035 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEWEES TO GONZALES TO CISTERN TO LINCOLN MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF 1
TO 1.5 INCHES PER HOUR.  LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND SMALL STREAMS WILL
LIKELY FLOOD.

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 2891 9810 2877 9792 2901 9730 2943 9696
          3003 9675 3052 9696 3046 9706 2996 9704
          2943 9716 2916 9747

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 23, 7:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie57 min
Nov 23, 8:31 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Medina3 hr
Nov 23, 8:35 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal, Hays3 hr
Nov 23, 8:55 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXDimmit, Zavala35 min
Nov 23, 9:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio57 min
Nov 23, 9:25 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Travis, Williamson3 hr
Nov 23, 10:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Gonzales, Wilson3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every 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.