Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 142, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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.
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, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.