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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2003, 2:52 PM CDT for Dimmit County, Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 113 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
- Jul 5, 2003, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Maverick County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 051956 FFWSAT TXC127-323-052145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 252 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... MAVERICK DIMMIT * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 252 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARRIZO SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL INDIO...MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE AND A HALF TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES PER HOUR AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS OVER THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 2868 10037 2824 10017 2830 9948 2845 9946 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 052049 FFSSAT TXC127-323-052145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 344 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MAVERICK AND DIMMIT COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 345 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL INDIO...MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE AS MUCH AS TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN MAVERICK COUNTY AND NORTHWEST DIMMIT COUNTY IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 4 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.