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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2003, 6:30 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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
- Jul 6, 2003, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2003, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 061131
FFWSAT
TXC137-271-323-465-061430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
630 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
EDWARDS
VAL VERDE
KINNEY
MAVERICK
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 630 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN MOVING ACROSS THESE COUNTIES FROM THE SOUTH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
WERE AVERAGING NEAR ONE HALF TO ONE INCH AN HOUR WITH ISOLATED
HEAVIER AMOUNT UP TO TWO INCHES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS...STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.
LAT...LON 3027 9979 3011 9982 3009 10010 2967 10009
2966 10016 2824 10015 2825 10020 2912 10062
2981 10141 2982 10171 3026 10172
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 061407 FFSSAT TXC137-271-323-465-061430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 905 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EDWARDS...VAL VERDE...KINNEY AND MAVERICK COUNTIES UNTIL 930 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM EAGLE PASS NORTHWARD TO DEL RIO AND JUNO. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR IN THE STRONGER STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MPH. SO FAR THIS MORNING 2.15 INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS REPORTED AT COMSTOCK WITH 2.60 INCHES ALONG SAN FELIPE CREEK IN DEL RIO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO TRAIN NORTHWARD ACROSS DEL RIO OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN THE DEL RIO AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RISING WATERS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 061437 FFSSAT TXC137-271-323-061500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 936 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EDWARDS...KINNEY AND MAVERICK COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 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.