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Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2004, 5:25 AM CDT for Val Verde 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
- May 14, 2004, 5:25 AM CDT (10:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2004, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 4095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 141029 FFWSAT TXC465-141330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 525 AM CDT FRI MAY 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 515 AM CDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS INDICATED FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR JUNO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN THE LAST HOUR WILL CAUSE 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. HIGHWAY 163 FROM JUNO TO BAKERS CROSSING WILL BE PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3025 10133 2995 10126 2983 10075 3028 10076 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 66 min |
| May 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 65 min |
| May 13, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 54 min |
| May 13, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 114 min |
| May 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 61 min |
| May 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 2 hr |
| May 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
| May 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 65 min |
| May 13, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 57 min |
| May 13, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson | 4 hr |
| May 13, 11:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 94 min |
| May 14, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 58 min |
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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.