Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 2003, 3:37 PM CST for Bandera County, Medina 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
- Mar 22, 2003, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2003, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bandera County, TX, Medina County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 222142 FFWSAT TXC019-325-230030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 337 PM CST SAT MAR 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BANDERA MEDINA * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 337 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTH OF TARPLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. 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. 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 2982 9944 2915 9935 2918 9890 2983 9906 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 222236 FFSSAT TXC019-325-222330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 434 PM CST SAT MAR 22 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BANDERA AND MEDINA COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CST... AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL LOCATED OVER MEDINA COUNTY. MOVEMENT IS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE OCCURRING FROM CASTROVILLE TO YANCEY. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 1 INCH AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 222321 FFSSAT TXC019-325-230015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 519 PM CST SAT MAR 22 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BANDERA AND MEDINA COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CST... AT 515 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE EXITED THE WARNED COUNTIES. HOWEVER RUNOFF MAY STILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. 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. $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 230000 FFSSAT TXC019-325-230030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 PM CST SAT MAR 22 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BANDERA AND MEDINA COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED...AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 12:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 60 min |
| Mar 22, 2:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.