Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 2, 2004, 7:04 PM CST for Kerr County, Kinney 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, 7:04 PM CST (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 186 days
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 030104
FFWSAT
TXC265-030300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
704 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
KERR
* UNTIL 900 PM CST
* AT 704 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN
FROM MOUNTAIN HOME TO KERRVILLE TO CENTER POINTS. RAINFALL RATES
OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR WILL PERSIST DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF
HOURS WITH THE RAIN MOVING VERY LITTLE.
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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
LAT...LON 3010 9953 2988 9899 3008 9898 3013 9929
3024 9950
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS54 KEWX 051144 FFWSAT TXC271-051345- /X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0024.041005T1141Z-041005T1345Z/ /0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 641 AM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE... * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KINNEY * UNTIL 845 AM CDT * AT 637 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER KINNEY COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BRACKETTVILLE AND ALAMO VILLAGE. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED WATER OVER THE ROAD ON HIGHWAY 277 SOUTH AND ON 674. FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED AREAS. A LITTLE OVER A FOOT OF WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST CARS AND TRUCKS. TURN AROUND - DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2918 10071 2911 10017 2959 10016 2961 10065 $$
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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.