Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 294, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2004, 10:39 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 26, 2004, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2004, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Edwards County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 270341 FFWSAT TXC137-270745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1039 PM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... EDWARDS * UNTIL 245 AM CDT * AT 1030 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY. * THESE STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EDWARDS COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY 337 SOUTH OF ROCKSPRINGS AND FM 2523 ARE CLOSED. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT STAY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. LAT...LON 2963 10068 2963 10008 3027 9997 3028 10070 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 270747 FFSSAT TXC137-270753- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 245 AM CDT MON SEP 27 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EDWARDS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 245 AM CDT... THE SHOWERS AND HEAVY RAIN HAVE DIMINISHED OVER EDWARDS COUNTY AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS OVER THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY. MOTORISTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH VAL VERDE AND EDWARDS COUNTIES DUE TO POSSIBLE RESIDUAL FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS SUNDAY EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 6:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 57 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.