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Flash Flood Warning 214, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 8, 2002Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2002, 7:25 PM CDT for Medina 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, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Medina County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 2002-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 565 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 2002-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 090025
FFWSAT
TXC325-090300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
722 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  MEDINA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 722 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ONE TO TWO
  INCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS MOVING INTO EASTERN MEDINA COUNTRY.
  ISOLATED TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE HEAVIER STORMS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS...STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...UNDERPASSES AND COUNTRY ROADS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.


LAT...LON 2912 9938 2913 9884 2964 9884 2951 9894
          2960 9904 2960 9941

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 8:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Frio, Medina4 hr
Sep 9, 12:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Frio, Medina6 hr
Sep 9, 5:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXFrio3 hr
Sep 9, 6:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bexar3 hr
Sep 9, 8:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bexar, Frio, Karnes, Medina, Wilson3 hr
Sep 9, 11:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDeWitt4 hr
Sep 9, 11:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Bexar, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Kendall and 1 more3 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.