Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 119, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 3:31 PM CDT for 23 counties in 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, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
All 23 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Llano County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 052031
FFWSAT
TXC013-019-029-031-053-055-091-127-163-171-187-209-255-259-265-299-
325-385-453-463-491-493-507-060200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
330 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
BURNET
LLANO
WILLIAMSON
TRAVIS
GILLESPIE
BLANCO
HAYS
KERR
KENDALL
REAL
CALDWELL
COMAL
BANDERA
GUADALUPE
BEXAR
MEDINA
UVALDE
WILSON
ATASCOSA
KARNES
FRIO
ZAVALA
DIMMIT
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
THE CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL RAIN CONTINUES HIGH FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND INTO THE EVENING. WITH THE GROUND SO SATURATED...JUST MODERATE
SHOWERS WILL PRODUCE FURTHER RUNOFF AND AGGRAVATE FLASH FLOODING OF
LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS. MANY CREEKS...
STREAMS...AND RIVERS ARE IN FLOOD...SOME AT RECORD LEVELS.
DRIVING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED IN THIS DANGEROUS...LIFE-THREATENING
SITUATION.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 2826 10011 2829 9943 2887 9769 2903 9784
2937 9788 2972 9771 2982 9744 3000 9773
3010 9770 3073 9733 3081 9751 3085 9762
3086 9768 3095 9782 3106 9842 2997 99822 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 052107 FFSSAT TXC013-019-029-031-053-055-091-127-163-171-187-209-255-259-265-299- 325-385-453-463-491-493-507-060200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 400 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING FOR BURNET...LLANO...WILLIAMSON...TRAVIS...GILLESPIE...BLANCO...HAYS ...KERR...KENDALL...REAL...CALDWELL...COMAL...BANDERA...GUADALUPE... BEXAR...MEDINA...UVALDE...WILSON...ATASCOSA...KARNES...FRIO...DIMMIT ...AND ZAVALA COUNTIES... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THESE COUNTIES THROUGH TONIGHT. SHOWER ACTIVITY HAS BEEN SPOTTY THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL RATES HAVE BEEN GENERALLY .5 TO 1 INCH BUT BUT TROPICAL DOWN POURS ARE STILL OCCURRING WITH RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN HEAVY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. THE CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL RAIN REMAINS HIGH THROUGH THE EVENING... CONTINUING THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING GIVEN THE SATURATED GROUND. LATEST COMPUTER PROJECTIONS INDICATE A DECREASE IN SHOWER ACTIVITY FOR LATER TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WHICH WOULD LOWER THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING. HOWEVER...MANY RIVERS WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD FOR SEVERAL DAYS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
000 WGUS74 KEWX 060057 FFSSAT TXC013-019-029-031-053-055-091-127-163-171-187-209-255-259-265-299- 325-385-453-463-491-493-507-060145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 755 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BURNET...LLANO...WILLIAMSON... TRAVIS...GILLESPIE...BLANCO...HAYS...KERR...KENDALL...REAL... CALDWELL...COMAL...BANDERA...GUADALUPE...BEXAR...MEDINA...UVALDE... WILSON...ATASCOSA...KARNES...FRIO...ZAVALA AND DIMMIT COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED...AND THE WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SMALL CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS MOVING NORTH OUT OF BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTY WITH RAINFALL RATES OF ONE HALF PER HOUR. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY DUE TO THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL DEVELOPING TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The 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, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Medina | 4 hr |
| 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.