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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2003, 8:55 AM CDT for Uvalde 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
- Jun 15, 2003, 8:55 AM CDT (13:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2003, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 151353 FFWSAT TXC463-151600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 855 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... UVALDE * UNTIL 1100 AM CDT * AT 850 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER UVALDE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OVER THE NEXT HOUR WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS OVER UVALDE COUNTY. 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. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. LAT...LON 2959 10008 2911 10010 2913 9946 2961 9944 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 151505 FFSSAT TXC463-151600- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1000 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR UVALDE COUNTY UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... CONCAN...GARNER STATE PARK...KNIPPA...MONTELL...REAGAN WELLS... SABINAL AND UVALDE ARE INCLUDED IN THE WARNED AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...A GENERAL SWATH OF ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WITH THIS SYSTEM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS FEEDING THE DRY FRIO...FRIO...NUECES AND SABINAL RIVERS. LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE AFFECTED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 151607 FFSSAT TXC463-151800- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1107 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR UVALDE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 4 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
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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.