Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 178, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2002, 5:51 PM CDT for Bexar County, Wilson 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2002, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bexar County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 162251 FFWSAT TXC029-493-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 555 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BEXAR WILSON * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 550 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHINA GROVE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF KIRBY... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH...WITH MORE NUMEROUS HEAVY SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS KARNES...WILSON INTO SOUTHERN ATASCOSA COUTNIES MOVING NORTH AROUND 20 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 AND A HALF TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WERE INDICATED WITHIN THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 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. 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.
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, 11:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 108 min |
| 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, 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.