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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 2004, 2:08 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 187 days
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 041908 FFWSAT TXC127-463-507-042200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 208 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... UVALDE ZAVALA DIMMIT * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 208 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF UVALDE TO 19 MILES SOUTH OF BIG WELLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE... 4 MILES SOUTH OF SABINAL AT 230 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... BATESVILLE LOMA VISTA BIG WELLS SABINAL 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 2937 9972 2851 10002 2835 9947 2935 9947 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS54 KEWX 090014 FFWSAT TXC465-090100- /X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0028.041009T0010Z-041009T0100Z/ /0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 710 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT. * FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 700 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER VAL VERDE COUNTY LOCATED FROM NEAR PANDALE TO NEAR JUNE AND FROM LANGTRY TO NEAR COMSTOCK. * THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 5 TO 10 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 2988 10132 2965 10103 2989 10108 3002 10135 $$
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, 1:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde | 187 days |
| Apr 4, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 62 min |
| 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.