Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 2, 2004, 2:48 PM CST for Fayette County, Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 186 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2004, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 186 days
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fayette County, TX, Maverick County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1046 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 022048 FFWSAT TXC149-022345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 248 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... FAYETTE * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 248 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SUGGEST AS MUCH AS 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST WEST OF WEST POINT IN WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN MAY STILL FALL OVER THESE SAME AREAS THROUGH 4 PM. THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 71 WEST OF LAGRANGE. 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 2982 9726 2970 9705 2997 9666 3012 9680 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS54 KEWX 051104
FFWSAT
TXC323-051400-
/X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0023.041005T1059Z-041005T1400Z/
/0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
559 AM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
MAVERICK
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT
* AT 556 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER MAVERICK COUNTY. MOVEMENT
WAS EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR
WERE BEING INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR.
* THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT EAGLE
PASS...EL INDIO AND NORMANDY.
HOME EVACUATIONS ARE OCCURRING IN EAGLE PASS ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
LAT...LON 2835 10030 2836 10013 2907 10015 2905 10038
2907 10066
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina, Val Verde | 186 days |
| Apr 2, 1:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe, Maverick | 186 days |
| Apr 2, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 91 min |
| Apr 2, 2:42 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes, Kinney | 186 days |
| Apr 2, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 56 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.