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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 31, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bandera County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 010103 FFWSAT TXC019-010300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 800 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BANDERA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 800 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER BANDERA COUNTY PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR. FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR AND PERSONS NEED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 31, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 245 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 MAIN BODY OF RAIN CONTINUES TO EXIT THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES AS UPPER LOW SLIDES EASTWARD. BEHIND THE LOW IS ANOTHER IMPULSE THAT IS TRIGGERING CONVECTION FROM DALLAS/FORT WORTH TO SAN ANGELO AND MIDLAND/ODESSA. THIS SECONDARY AREA OF CONVECTION IS MOVING STEADILY SOUTHWARD AND WILL BE IN THE HILL COUNTRY BEFORE SUNSET AND INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER TONIGHT IF ALL HOLDS TOGETHER. AS A RESULT...WILL GO AHEAD AND KEEP THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH UP THROUGH TONIGHT. RAINFALL TOTALS WILL NOT BE AS GREAT AS PAST DAYS BUT SINCE THE GROUND IS SO SATURATED AND CREEKS AND RIVERS ARE RUNNING BANKFULL OR HIGHER...CANT SEE TAKING THE WATCH DOWN UNTIL ALL PRECIP IS DEFINITELY OUT OF THE AFFECTED WATCH AREA...AND THAT MAY NOT BE UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT OR SUNDAY...ALTHOUGH SOME POPS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THIS COMING WEEK. LESSER CLOUD COVER WILL ALLOW MAX TEMPS TO WARM UP THIS WEEKEND FOLLOWING SEVERAL DAYS OF WELL-BELOW HIGHS. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 71/89/72/90 5532 DRT 75/93/75/95 3321 SAT 73/91/73/92 5532 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND ADJACENT TEXAS HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 7:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 118 min |
| Aug 31, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 9:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 118 min |
| Aug 31, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 85 min |
| Aug 31, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes | 4 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.