Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 211, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2002, 12:06 PM CDT for Burnet County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 114 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 8, 2002, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burnet County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 513 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 081706
FFWSAT
TXC053-491-081900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1205 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
BURNET
WILLIAMSON
* UNTIL 200 PM CDT
* AT 1205 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN 4 MILES NORTH OF BERTRAM...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF BURNET...
MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. RAINFALL RATES ARE ESTIMATED BETWEEN
1 AND 2 INCHES AN HOUR.
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 3102 9841 3052 9832 3073 9800 3058 9772
3077 9745 3102 97971 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 081907 FFSSAT TXC053-491-082000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 207 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BURNET AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED 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, 9:15 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, 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.