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Flash Flood Warning 183, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2004, 5:22 PM CDT for Gillespie 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 27, 2004, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1028 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 272227 FFWSAT TXC171-280115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 522 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG PALO ALTO CREEK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE RIVER FLOODING ALONG PALO ALTO CREEK. HIGHWAY 16 AND COUNTY ROAD 965 WILL LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY FLOOD WATERS FROM PALO ALTO CREEK. THE CREEK WILL CONTINUE TO RISE UNTIL THE RAINFALL ENDS AND ALL THE EXCESS WATERS HAS RUN OFF. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION AND ALL INTERESTS ALONG PALO ALTO CREEK SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. LAT...LON 3043 9923 3024 9916 3023 9872 3043 9868 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 119 min |
| Jun 27, 11:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 90 min |
| Jun 27, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall | 3 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.