Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 2004, 1:54 PM CDT for Kinney County, Maverick County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 187 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 4, 2004, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 187 days
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 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 041856 FFWSAT TXC271-323-042200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 154 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KINNEY MAVERICK * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 154 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF QUEMADO TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL INDIO... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... QUEMADO EAGLE PASS EL INDIO SPOFFORD EXPECT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL RANGING FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES. HEAVY RAIN AND RUNOFF WILL FORCE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT OF BANKS THE NEXT FEW HOURS...MAKING AUTO TRAFFIC DANGEROUS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD APPROACH LOW BRIDGES AND CROSSINGS VERY SLOWLY AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ENTER FLOODED CROSSINGS. LAT...LON 2960 10066 2870 10066 2823 10013 2962 10014 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS54 KEWX 082114 FFWSAT TXC465-090015- /X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0027.041008T2112Z-041009T0015Z/ /0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 412 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 406 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF COMSTOCK AND ALONG HIGHWAY 90. * THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED AREAS. TURN AROUND - DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2955 10122 2946 10098 2967 10102 2967 10123 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 58 min |
| Apr 4, 10:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick, Val Verde | 185 days |
| Apr 4, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 185 days |
| Apr 4, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 11:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 71 min |
| Apr 4, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 62 min |
| Apr 4, 2:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Uvalde, Val Verde, Zavala | 187 days |
| Apr 4, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Medina | 192 days |
| Apr 4, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes and 2 more | 192 days |
| Apr 4, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 4:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Dimmit, Guadalupe, Uvalde, Zavala | 192 days |
| Apr 4, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe | 58 min |
| Apr 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 90 min |
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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.