Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 166, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2004, 4:27 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Karnes County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 25, 2004, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties DeWitt County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 2263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 252130
FFWSAT
TXC123-255-493-260130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
427 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
WILSON
DEWITT
KARNES
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 426 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POTH...OR
ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF PLEASANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE YORKTOWN...WESTHOFF...
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS...STOCKDALE...RUNGE...PANDORA...NORDHEIM...LA
VERNIA...KENEDY...KARNES CITY...HOCHHEIM...GILLETT...FLORESVILLE...
FALLS CITY...CUERO AND CESTOHOWA.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER OR MOVING INTO THE WARNED COUNTIES
ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. 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.
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 2914 9838 2873 9800 2871 9779 2896 9740
2892 9730 2911 9704 2935 9724 2910 9764
2921 9777 2935 9790 2937 9818
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 252259 FFSSAT TXC013-029-123-149-171-177-255-259-285-299-493-260000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 555 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LLANO...KENDALL...AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 6 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ATASCOSA COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAYETTE...GONZALES...AND LAVACA COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BEXAR COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WILSON...DEWITT...AND KARNES COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM... AFTERNOON SUMMER TIME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...WIND GUSTS OF 20 TO 50 MPH...HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING HAS ACCOMPANIED THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE CAUTION AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS... WHERE FLOODING IS LIKELY FROM HEAVY RAIN RUNOFF. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Frio, Zavala | 73 min |
| Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 116 min |
| Jun 25, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
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.