Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 170, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2002, 11:12 AM CDT for Comal County, Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 108 min. 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 16, 2002, 11:12 AM CDT (16:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2002, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 108 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Comal County, TX, Hays County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 161612 FFWSAT TXC091-209-161800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1108 AM CDT TUE JUL 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... HAYS COMAL * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1110 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN WIMBERLEY. AND CANYON LAKE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED MAINLY OVER THE COMAL AND HAYS COUNTY LINES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. 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. LAT...LON 2998 9833 2976 9809 3001 9781 3024 9813
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 161828 FFSSAT TXC209-161900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 120 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HAYS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED AND THE FLOOD THREAT HAS DIMINISHED. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR HAYS COUNTY. 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 15, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 8:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Comal, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Comal, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 100 min |
| Jul 16, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 103 min |
| Jul 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 113 min |
| Jul 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
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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.