Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 227, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2002, 12:34 AM CDT for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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
- Oct 8, 2002, 12:34 AM CDT (05:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2002, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 080534
FFWSAT
TXC137-271-465-081015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1222 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
EDWARDS
VAL VERDE
KINNEY
* UNTIL 515 AM CDT
* AT 1222 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEL RIO TO JUNO AND EASTWARD TO BRACKETTVILLE AND
ROCKSPRINGS. RAINFALL RATES WERE UP TO 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES PER HOUR
IN SOME STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
RAINS EXTENDED WELL INTO NORTHEAST MEXICO.
PEOPLE ALONG SAN FELIPE CREEK IN SOUTH DEL RIO SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 2989 10163 2918 10065 2918 10024 3021 10005
3022 10081 3023 10164The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 111 min |
| Oct 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Real and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 4:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Real and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 8, 9:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 44 min |
| Oct 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 55 min |
| Oct 8, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 54 min |
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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.