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Flash Flood Warning 202, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 7, 2002Uvalde County, Texas

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 152 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 8:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson2 hr
Sep 7, 8:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet, Gillespie, Llano118 min
Sep 7, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson3 hr
Sep 7, 11:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet, Llano117 min
Sep 8, 1:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXLlano119 min
Sep 8, 4:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
Sep 8, 9:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDeWitt3 hr
Sep 8, 9:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson2 hr
Sep 8, 12:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet, Williamson114 min
Sep 8, 1:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca2 hr
Sep 8, 2:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa3 hr
Sep 8, 4:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Karnes, Wilson3 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.