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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 105 min. 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 28, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 105 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1763 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 282247 FFWSAT TXC259-290030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 545 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KENDALL * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 545 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN BOERNE...COMFORT AND SISTERDALE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED. THE RAIN IS DECREASING...HOWEVER WATER WILL CONTINUE TO RISE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2984 9893 2972 9878 2994 9852 3003 9888 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 282325 FFSSAT TXC259-290030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 625 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR KENDALL COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 623 PM...ONLY PATCHY LIGHT RAIN WAS NOTED OVER KENDALL COUNTY. HOWEVER...RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WAS ESTIMATED TO HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN BOERNE...COMFORT...AND SISTERDALE. AS A RESULT...WATER LEVELS IN THE ABOVE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO RISE WITH SOME FLOODING LIKELY OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...THEN WATER LEVELS FALL RAPIDLY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS..COUNTRY ROADS..NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS..AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 290039 FFSSAT TXC259-290100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 737 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR KENDALL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAS ENDED AND THE FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED. WATER LEVELS ARE NOW FALLING IN THE WARNED AREA. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
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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.