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Flash Flood Warning 142, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 15, 2004Lavaca County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 2:05 PM CDT for Lavaca 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 15, 2004, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lavaca County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1984 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 151909
FFWSAT
TXC285-152200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
205 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  LAVACA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 204 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SUBLIME...
  OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF HALLETTSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SHINER...MOULTON AND EZZELL.


RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES NEAR SUBLIME 
ALONG HIGHWAY ALTERNATE 90. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS 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.

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 2940 9721 2911 9694 2934 9661 2960 9689
          2960 9716

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 2:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXFayette3 hr
Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet63 min
Jun 15, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco54 min
Jun 15, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays55 min
Jun 15, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal55 min
Jun 15, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt52 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.