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Flash Flood Warning 232, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2002, 11:54 AM CDT for 9 counties in 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2002, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2002, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bandera County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 081654 FFWSAT TXC019-137-171-265-271-323-385-463-465-081945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1150 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE EDWARDS KERR VAL VERDE REAL BANDERA UVALDE KINNEY MAVERICK * UNTIL 3 PM CDT * AT 1150 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS FROM UVALDE COUNTY NORTHEASTWARD TO ENCOMPASS MUCH OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINS THIS MORNING CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE PLAINS WITH NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSURES IN EFFECT. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE RAINS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. IN ADDITION...ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY.. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. 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.
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 081958 FFSSAT TXC019-137-171-265-271-323-385-463-465-082045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 248 PM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 3 PM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH TONIGHT ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LEE COUNTY TO ATASCOSA COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES AN AREA FROM LEXINGTON AND TAYLOR TO PLEASANTON...THEN WEST TO AUSTIN...SAN ANTONIO...AND DEL RIO... ONLY LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS REMAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA WITH NO SIGNIFICANT FLOOD PRODUCING RAINS INDICATED...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 3 PM... GILLESPIE...EDWARDS...KERR...VAL VERDE...REAL...BANDERA...UVALDE ...KINNEY...MAVERICK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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, 11:56 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 |
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.