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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 27, 2001Guadalupe County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2001, 6:46 PM CDT for Guadalupe 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
Aug 27, 2001, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Guadalupe County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 12:00Z on 2001-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2992 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2001-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2992 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 272348
FFWSAT
TXC187-280145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
646 PM CDT MON AUG 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GUADALUPE

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 646 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN
  5 MILES EAST OF SEGUIN...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTH BACK THROUGH SEGUIN WHERE HEAVY 
RAINS FELL EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. 

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 2956 9819 2942 9793 2965 9772 2981 9791

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGonzales118 min
Aug 26, 7:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays, Travis, Williamson3 hr
Aug 27, 12:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays, Travis, Williamson4 hr
Aug 27, 3:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe2 hr
Aug 27, 4:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson111 min
Aug 27, 4:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal, Kendall2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.