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Flash Flood Warning 202, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2002, 7:03 PM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 117 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
- Sep 7, 2002, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 080003 FFWSAT TXC463-080200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 700 PM CDT SAT SEP 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... UVALDE * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 700 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ONE TO TWO INCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OCCURRING OVER UVALDE COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...COUNTRY ROADS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. LAT...LON 2913 10007 2914 9947 2959 9945 2959 10007
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 8:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Gillespie, Llano | 118 min |
| Sep 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 117 min |
| Sep 8, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 119 min |
| Sep 8, 4:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 9:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 114 min |
| Sep 8, 1:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 2 hr |
| Sep 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Karnes, Wilson | 3 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.