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Flash Flood Warning 230, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2002, 6:55 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 6:55 AM CDT (11:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2002, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bandera County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 081155
FFWSAT
TXC019-137-265-271-323-385-463-081400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
653 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
KERR
REAL
BANDERA
UVALDE
KINNEY
MAVERICK
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT
* AT 653 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN...
MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE EFFECTED COUNTIES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS...STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...UNDERPASSES...COUNTRY ROADS...
FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT
ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 2920 10071 2828 10016 2911 10015 2911 9947
2967 9946 2967 9894 2971 9884 2982 9899
3012 9897 3011 9937 3024 9936 3024 10063
2933 10063The 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, 12:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 5 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, 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.