Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2002, 12:07 PM CDT for Dimmit County, Zavala 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
- Jul 1, 2002, 12:07 PM CDT (17:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2002, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 011707 FFWSAT TXC127-507-012000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1204 PM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ZAVALA DIMMIT * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 1204 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM BIG WELLS AND BRUNDAGE TO BATESVILLE WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR. THE RAINS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT 10 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED THIS MORNING AND THE SOILS ARE LIKELY SATURATED...SO RUNOFF WILL BECOME RAPID AND FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2855 10009 2855 9942 2907 9944 2907 10011
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 011819 FFSSAT TXC127-507-012000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 119 PM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ZAVALA AND DIMMIT COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 115 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADARS SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAINS BETWEEN CRYSTAL CITY...CARRIZO SPRINGS...AND BRUNDAGE WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. ELSEWHERE...RAINFALL RATES WERE AROUND ONE-HALF INCH TO NEAR AN INCH. THIS AREA IS MOVING VERY LITTLE. FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS. 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 011902 FFSSAT TXC127-507-012000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 202 CDT MON JUL 1 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ZAVALA AND DIMMIT COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 200 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADARS SHOWED RAINFALL DECREASING ACROSS ZAVALA COUNTY WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR IN DIMMIT COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF CARRIZO SPRINGS. RAINFALL RATES WILL CONINUE TO DECREASE AND FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. 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 011958 FFSSAT TXC013-029-163-012100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 300 PM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BEXAR...ATASCOSA AND FRIO COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAS CONTINUED TO DECREASE AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 117 min |
| Jul 1, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 115 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.