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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2002, 9:49 AM CDT for Gillespie 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
- Jun 30, 2002, 9:49 AM CDT (14:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2002, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gillespie County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 792 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
467 WGUS54 KEWX 301449 FFWSAT TXC171-301800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 948 AM CDT SUN JUN 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 948 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDERICKSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL AFFECT THE AREAS IN AND AROUND LUCKENBACH AND STONEWALL...INCLUDING THE LBJ RANCH. 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. LAT...LON 3015 9906 3016 9861 3050 9860 3049 9895 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 4:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 6:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 6:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 9:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Kendall | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr | 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.