Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 2:53 AM CDT for Bandera County, Kerr County, Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2002, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bandera County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Medina County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 050753
FFWSAT
TXC019-265-325-051145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
251 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
KERR
BANDERA
MEDINA
* UNTIL 645 AM CDT
* AT 251 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN
DEVELOPING OVER KERR...BANDERA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
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. PARENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN AWAY
FROM THE RAPIDLY MOVING CREEKS AND STREAMS.
LAT...LON 3026 9975 2995 9961 2966 9958 2965 9934
2912 9938 2913 9885 2970 9884 2980 9899
3012 9897 3011 9933 3027 9936The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Comal | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall, Llano | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Gillespie, Kendall and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe, Real | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Travis | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 17 more | 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.