Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2001, 3:01 PM CDT for Bandera County, Kerr County, 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2001, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bandera County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 052005 FFWSAT TXC019-265-052300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 301 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KERR BANDERA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 301 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM UPOTIA TO 10 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAIN HOME...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE LAST HOUR NORTH OF UTOPIA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS....HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 2974 9962 2968 9896 2997 9899 3030 9958
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 9:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 1:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 1:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 115 min |
| Sep 5, 3:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 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.