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Flash Flood Warning 209, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2002, 9:15 AM CDT for DeWitt 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2002, 9:15 AM CDT (14:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2002, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeWitt County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 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 081415
FFWSAT
TXC123-081715-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
913 AM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
DEWITT
* UNTIL 1215 PM CDT
* AT 910 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN
IN GOLIAD COUNTY MOVING INTO DEWITT COUNTY. MOVEMENT IS NORTH AT 15
TO 20 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 INCH AN HOUR WILL ACCOMPANY THESE
STORMS. THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED BY PREVIOUS RAINS AND
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF.
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 2900 9772 2885 9759 2897 9741 2891 9730
2911 9703 2937 97261 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 081717 FFSSAT TXC123-081815- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1216 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DEWITT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ENDING AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 117 min |
| 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, 9:59 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 |
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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.