Flash Flood Warning 125, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Issued

Jul 13, 2002, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)

Expired

Jul 13, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bandera County, TX

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WGUS54 KEWX 131832
FFWSAT
TXC019-132100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
130 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 130 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF VERY 
HEAVY RAIN FORMING OVER PARTS OF BANDERA COUNTY.  THE RAIN WITH 
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THE NEXT 1 TO 2 
HOURS...CAUSING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.  

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND
ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

LAT...LON 2967 9960 2967 9900 2977 9894 2986 9955

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 13, 11:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1150 AM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002

MID LATITUDE TROF COMING IN FROM THE NW WILL MOVE ESE ACROSS
PARTS OF CNTRL AND S CNTRL TX THIS AFTERNOON.   MID LAT TROF
WILL INTERACT WITH REMNANTS OF TROPICAL WAVE...FROM EARLIER IN THE
WEEK...NOW OVR TX BEND AREA.  THIS WILL MAKE FOR MOSTLY CLOUDY
AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS.  TODAYS WX PATTERN WILL ALSO MAKE FOR MAX TEMPS
TO BE WELL BELOW MID JULY NORMALS...WITH THE MULTI LAYERS CLOUDS
AND SCT RAIN.  TODAYS WX IS ALMOST LIKE AN EARLY FALL PATTERN IN A
JULY SETTING...WITH MID LAT TROF INTERACTING WITH REMNANTS OF WX SYS
OVR BIG BEND AREA.

WILL KEEP CHC OF RAIN FOR TONIGHT THRU MONDAY...AS FORECASTS CONT TO
SHOW TROF OVER THE AREA THRU MONDAY.  FORECASTS CONT TO SHOW CHC OF
RAIN SLOWLY FALLING BY THE MID TO LATE PART OF NEXT WEEK.

PRELIMS...
AUS 089/072/090/072/090 75455
DRT 092/074/094/074/093 65455
SAT 089/074/091/074/090 75455

.EWX...NONE.

08/19

In the hours before

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-131900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1100 AM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002

...A MOSTLY CLOUDY SUMMER DAY WITH SCATTERED RAIN...SHOWERS...
AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

A WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT OVER CENTRAL TEXAS...MOVING TO THE
EAST SOUTHEAST...WILL MOVE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND INTERACT WITH ANOTHER WEATHER
SYSTEM NEAR THE TEXAS BIG BEND AREA.

THIS WEATHER PATTERN WILL FAVOR PATCHES OF RAIN...SHOWERS...
AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON.  SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY FORM...WITH
THE STRONGER SHOWEERS OR THUNDERSTORMS.

AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL BE WELL BELOW MID JULY NORMALS...WITH
HIGHS IN THE 80S TO LOWER 90S.

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

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.