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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 2001, 4:01 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. 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
- May 5, 2001, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County DeWitt County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 052102
FFWSAT
TXC123-052300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
401 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DEWITT
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 400 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN
ACROSS DEWITT COUNTY.
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 2895 9769 2884 9760 2897 9742 2890 9731
2911 9702 2935 9725The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 63 min |
| May 4, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Maverick | 40 min |
| May 4, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 66 min |
| May 4, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 114 min |
| May 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 60 min |
| May 4, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 46 min |
| May 5, 2:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 113 min |
| May 5, 3:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 2 hr |
| May 5, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 88 min |
| May 5, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 2 hr |
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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.