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Flash Flood Warning 251, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2002, 9:53 AM CDT for Dimmit County, Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 112 min. 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 24, 2002, 9:53 AM CDT (14:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2002, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 241453 FFWSAT TXC127-507-241645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 951 AM CDT THU OCT 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ZAVALA DIMMIT * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT * AT 951 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM LA PRYOR AND BATESVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARRIZO SPRINGS AND 20 MILES WEST OF CATARINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO INCHES WERE NOTED. STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH A STORM OVER FAR SOUTHERN DIMMIT COUNTY AS WELL. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2824 10009 2824 9946 2908 9946 2906 10007
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 5:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 5:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 9:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Kendall and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Real, Uvalde, Zavala | 62 min |
| Oct 24, 12:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Frio and 5 more | 111 min |
| Oct 24, 12:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 84 min |
| Oct 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Travis | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 1:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson | 2 hr |
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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.