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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2003, 12:25 PM CDT for Caldwell 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
- Sep 14, 2003, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Caldwell County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 2752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 141727 FFWSAT TXC055-141930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1225 PM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CALDWELL * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 1225 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOCKHART...MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. RAINFALLS RATES WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ARE ESTIMATED AT 2.5 INCHES AN HOUR. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... LOCKHART 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 2983 9790 2967 9762 2979 9736 3003 9766 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 141811 FFSSAT TXC055-142015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 109 PM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CALDWELL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE CALDWELL COUNTY... AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOUES SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED...AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 59 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.