Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 237, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2002, 10:59 PM CDT for Kinney County, Val Verde 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
- Oct 8, 2002, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 1904 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 090359 FFWSAT TXC271-465-090700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 11 PM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... VAL VERDE KINNEY * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 11 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH INTO VAL VERDE AND KINNEY COUNTIES FROM MEXICO. WITH ALREADY SATURATED SOILS AND SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS FROM PREVIOUS RAINS...THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES IN SAN FELIPE CREEK...SYCAMORE CREEK...AND THE SURROUNDING TRIBUTARIES. LOW WATER CROSSINGS...ARROYOS...AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IN THE DEL RIO AND BRACKETTVILLE AREAS WILL ALSO BECOME DANGEROUS FROM THE RAPIDLY RISING WATER. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 2925 10102 2913 10088 2960 10022 2962 10081
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 8:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Wilson | 53 min |
| Oct 8, 9:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 114 min |
| Oct 9, 1:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Real and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Oct 9, 10:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 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.