Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2003, 2:23 PM CDT for Bandera County, 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
- Sep 5, 2003, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bandera County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 051924 FFWSAT TXC019-052230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 223 PM CDT FRI SEP 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BANDERA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 223 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 17 MILES EAST OF BANDERA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOERNE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM DROPPED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN WEST OF TARPLY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. 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. 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 2969 9959 2967 9896 2987 9917 2987 9960 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 052144 FFSSAT TXC019-052230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 443 PM CDT FRI SEP 5 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BANDERA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ONLY LIGHT RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF BANDERA COUNTY...AND THE FLOOD THREAT HAS DIMINISHED. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED...AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 1:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Wilson | 3 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.