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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2002, 11:24 AM CDT for Kendall 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, 11:24 AM CDT (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
652
WGUS54 KEWX 301624
FFWSAT
TXC259-301900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1121 AM CDT SUN JUN 30 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
KENDALL
* UNTIL 200 PM CDT
* AT 1121 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN 16 MILES NORTH OF BOERNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR CONTINUE ACROSS THE
WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY.
* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...COMFORT...
SISTERDALE AND KENDALIA.
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 2984 9892 2978 9869 2996 9849 3012 9860
3012 9887
$$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, 9:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.