Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 8:37 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Gonzales County, Karnes 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 13, 2003, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Caldwell County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Karnes County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 3720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 140140 FFWSAT TXC055-177-255-140430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 837 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CALDWELL GONZALES KARNES * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 837 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 3 MILES WEST OF GONZALES TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENEDY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 2961 9749 2881 9800 2946 9728 2985 9739 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 140231 FFSSAT TXC013-055-177-187-255-493-140430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 931 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CALDWELL... GONZALES...AND KARNES COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WILSON... GUADALUPE...AND ATASCOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 931 PM...RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES... CONTINUING OVER PARTS OF ATASCOSA...WILSON...GUADALUPE... GONZALES...CALDWELL...AND KARNES COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 1.50 TO NEAR 2 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITH THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...NEAR UNDERPASSES... COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 71 min |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 30 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.