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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 2003, 5:32 PM CST 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
- Mar 25, 2003, 5:32 PM CST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2003, 8:30 PM CST
- 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 radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 252334 FFWSAT TXC171-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 532 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 532 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER LUCKENBACH...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDERICKSBURG... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... LUCKENBACH LBJ STATE PARK BETWEEN HIGHWAY 87 AND 290...SOUTH GRAPE CREEK AND OTHER SMALL TRIBUTARIES TO THE PEDERNALES WILL BE ON THE RISE. LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL BE FLOODING. 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 3014 9880 3022 9884 3037 9859 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 260212 FFSSAT TXC171-259-260315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 811 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GILLESPIE AND KENDALL COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT HAS DIMINISHED. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED...AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 59 min |
| Mar 25, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 62 min |
| Mar 25, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 53 min |
| Mar 25, 5:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 54 min |
| Mar 25, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 62 min |
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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.