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Flash Flood Warning 152, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2004, 5:03 PM CDT for Uvalde 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 24, 2004, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 242207 FFWSAT TXC463-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 503 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... UVALDE * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 501 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SABINAL... OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF UVALDE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE REAGAN WELLS...MONTELL... KNIPPA...GARNER STATE PARK AND CONCAN. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM UVALDE AND KNIPPA TO SABINAL WAS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. IN ADDITION... THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERATING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH. 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. 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 2960 10007 2914 10008 2913 9945 2957 9947 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 242300 FFSSAT TXC463-250100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 551 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR UVALDE COUNTY... AT 547 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM UTOPIA TO FRIO TOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATED UP TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN MAINLY NORTH OF THE CITY OF UVALDE THIS AFTERNOON. AN ADDITIONAL .75 TO 1 INCH IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 8 PM. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO UVALDE...REAGAN WELLS...MONTELL...KNIPPA...GARNER STATE PARK AND CONCAN. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2959 10008 2914 10009 2913 9945 2960 9947 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 115 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.