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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2003, 5:05 AM CDT for Edwards County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 15, 2003, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2003, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, TX, Real County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 3317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 151006 FFWSAT TXC137-385-151400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 505 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... EDWARDS REAL * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 459 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EDWARDS COUNTY AND DEVELOPING HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER REAL COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES OF BETWEEN 1 AND 1/2 AND 2 INCHES PER HOUR WERE INDICATED BY RADAR. OVER EDWARDS COUNTY... ROADS...LOW BRIDGES...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS OVER THE WEST NUECES AND NUECES RIVERS AND TRIBUTARIES...AND HACKBERRY CREEK WILL FLOOD AND BE VERY DANGEROUS TO MOTORISTS THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THESE STREAMS HAVE A DEADLY HISTORY AND SHOULD BE APPROACHED WITH EXTREME CAUTION. OVER REAL COUNTY... LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG FM 337 AND OTHER SECONDARY ROADS WILL QUICKLY FLOOD AND BE VERY DANGEROUS THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MOTORISTS SHOULD APPROACH DRAWS AND CROSSINGS VERY SLOWLY AND IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES ENTER FLOODED ROAD CROSSINGS. 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 2963 10068 2969 9968 3024 9982 3024 10063 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 151318 FFSSAT TXC137-271-385-463-151400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 815 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EDWARDS...REAL...UVALDE AND KINNEY COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IS EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY TODAY... A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH MODERATE RAIN WAS SLOWLY WEAKENING ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE HALF TO INCH PER HOUR WERE STILL INDICATED BY RADAR...BUT DECREASING IN INTENSITY OVER THE PAST HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 151409 FFSSAT TXC137-271-385-151500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 907 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EDWARDS...REAL AND KINNEY COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THROUGH TODAY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR AND RESIDUAL FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 2:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 75 min |
| Jun 15, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 71 min |
| Jun 15, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 6:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 2 hr |
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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.