Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 259, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 4, 2002, 12:47 PM CST for Guadalupe County, 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 2002, 12:47 PM CST (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 2002, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guadalupe County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 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 041847 FFWSAT TXC187-042145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1244 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GUADALUPE * UNTIL 345 PM CST * AT 1240 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS GUADALUPE COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES ARE ESTIMATED NEAR ONE INCH AN HOUR. JUST UNDER A HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL IN THE PAST HOUR AT THE NEW BRAUNFELS AIRPORT. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. 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.
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 041941 FFSSAT TXC187-042145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 139 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR GUADALUPE COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CST... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING OVER GUADALUPE COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES ARE ESTIMATED NEAR ONE INCH AN HOUR THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
000 WGUS74 KEWX 042003 FFSSAT TXC187-042145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 159 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR GUADALUPE COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CST... RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 1/2 TO 2 INCHES HAVE BROUGHT ALLIGATOR AND GERONIMO CREEKS OUT OF BANKS THIS AFTERNOON. GERONIMO CREEK AT HIGHWAY 123 WAS AT 2 FEET AND RISING SLOWLY. GERONIMO CREEK AT HIGHWAY 90 IN SEGUIN WILL RISE TO AROUND 8 TO 9 FEET THIS EVENING AS THIS WATER MOVES DOWNSTREAM. LOW WATER CROSSINGS...CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS GUADALUPE COUNTY WILL BE FLOODED AND DANGEROUS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION.
000 WGUS74 KEWX 042013 FFSSAT TXC021-055-149-187-209-287-453-042200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 207 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR TRAVIS AND HAYS COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM CST... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LEE COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM CST... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BASTROP...CALDWELL...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAIN... WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF BASTROP...CALDWELL...FAYETTE...HAYS...LEE...AND TRAVIS COUNTIES. THESE RAINS WILL CONTINUE THE NEXT FEW HOURS...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE...MAKING FOR A DAMP AND COLD AFTERNOON. THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING ON STREETS AND ROADS IN LOW LYING AREAS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND ALONG CREEKS...STREAMS AND RIVERS. 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. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 12:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 4, 12:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Nov 4, 1:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Nov 4, 1:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 2 hr |
| Nov 4, 2:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Gonzales and 6 more | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.