Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2004, 12:22 PM CDT for Guadalupe County, Wilson 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
- Jun 9, 2004, 12:22 PM CDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Guadalupe County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 091725
FFWSAT
TXC187-493-092015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1222 PM CDT WED JUN 9 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
GUADALUPE
WILSON
* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
* AT 1220 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS
DEVELOPING OVER WILSON AND GUADALUPE COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SUTHERLAND SPRINGS...
SEGUIN...SCHERTZ...MCQUEENEY...LA VERNIA...KINGSBURY...GERONIMO
AND FLORESVILLE.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN OVER GUADALUPE AND
WILSON COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
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 2915 9829 2910 9811 2926 9791 2944 9793
2964 9778 2975 9791 2961 9815 2954 9805
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 091731 FFSSAT TXC013-019-029-031-091-171-187-259-265-299-325-385-463-493-091901- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1226 PM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ATASCOSA...BEXAR...LLANO...GILLESPIE... KENDALL...KERR...BANDERA...REAL...UVALDE...AND MEDINA COUNTIES THROUGH 1 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BLANCO AND COMAL COUNTIES UNTIL 2 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GUADALUPE AND WILSON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 400 PM CDT... AT 1215 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS AN AREA OF RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...OVER PARTS OF REAL...UVALDE... MEDINA...ATASCOSA...BEXAR...COMAL...GUADALUPE...WILSON...BANDERA... KERR...GILLESPIE...BLANCO AND LLANO COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THESE HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OCCASIONAL RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS 20 TO 40 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS...DURING THIS HEAVY RAIN EVENT THIS AFTERNOON. TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED OVER THE HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON... AS LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING...AND MANY SECONDARY ROADS...INCLUDING FARM AND RANCH ROADS...NEAR CREEKS...SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS WILL FLOOD. OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ADJACENT TO THE HILL COUNTRY...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ROADS IN LOW LYING AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO FLOOD WHERE HEAVY RAIN FORMS THIS AFTERNOON. OCCASIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE TODAY... WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE FROM THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 8:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 117 min |
| Jun 9, 4:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Llano, Medina and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 67 min |
| Jun 9, 12:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe, Hays, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Lavaca, Lee | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.