Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 254, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2002, 1:10 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Fayette County, Travis 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 24, 2002, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Travis County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 241810
FFWSAT
TXC021-149-453-242100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
108 PM CDT THU OCT 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
TRAVIS
BASTROP
FAYETTE
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 108 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN
SPREADING INTO TRAVIS...BASTROP...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH
PER HOUR WERE NOTED. THIS RAIN WILL CAUSE SOME STREAMS AND LOW
LYING AREAS TO FLOOD.
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 3042 9818 3010 9772 2964 9702 3000 9663
3006 9706 3027 9716 3043 9751 3043 9783
3056 9797The 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, 9:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 112 min |
| 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, 1:52 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 |
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.