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Flash Flood Warning 115, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 5, 2002Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 3:54 AM CDT for Hays 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2002, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2002, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hays County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 269 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 00:00Z on 2002-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2421 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
2421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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 050854
FFWSAT
TXC209-051130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
352 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  HAYS

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 337 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED 
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES AN 
HOUR OVER THE WARNED 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 SHOULD KEEP THEIR CHILDREN AWAY FROM 
SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS UNTIL THE FLASH FLOODING SUBSIDES.


LAT...LON 3006 9830 2984 9802 3003 9778 3030 9813

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
Jul 4, 11:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall3 hr
Jul 5, 12:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet, Comal4 hr
Jul 5, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
Jul 5, 12:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilson3 hr
Jul 5, 2:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Kendall, Llano119 min
Jul 5, 2:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Kerr, Medina4 hr
Jul 5, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Karnes4 hr
Jul 5, 3:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Gillespie, Kendall and 2 more3 hr
Jul 5, 3:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays3 hr
Jul 5, 4:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe, Real2 hr
Jul 5, 5:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXCaldwell, Travis3 hr
Jul 5, 6:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 15 more6 hr
Jul 5, 7:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDimmit, Zavala4 hr
Jul 5, 11:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 18 more4 hr
Jul 5, 3:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 17 more4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.