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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 2003, 6:29 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 6:29 PM CST (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2003, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Burnet County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 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 260030 FFWSAT TXC053-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 629 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BURNET * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 629 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPICEWOOD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MARBLE FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BERTRAM AT 700 PM 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 3051 9832 3046 9815 3075 9801 3076 9810 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 260230 FFSSAT TXC053-260245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 830 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BURNET COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAS ENDED AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE... BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 66 min |
| Mar 25, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 57 min |
| Mar 25, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 53 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.