Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 333, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2004, 1:10 AM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Oct 23, 2004, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2004, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kerr County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.6
- Supercell composite
- -3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 230610 FFWSAT TXC265-230815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 110 AM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KERR * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 106 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KERR COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KERRVILLE...KERRVILLE STATE PARK...INGRAM AND CENTER POINT. 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 2995 9928 2981 9894 3013 9893 3013 9925 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 230822 FFSSAT TXC019-265-230845- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 321 AM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR BANDERA AND KERR COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED... AT 315 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...OUT OF BANDERA AND KERR COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WERE COMMON FROM EARLIER STORMS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN BANDERA AND SOUTHEAST KERR COUNTIES. RAPID RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR PAST POLICE BARRICADES...AND BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARD TO TELL THE DEPTH OF WATER OVER ROADS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 47 min |
| Oct 22, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 53 min |
| Oct 23, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 12:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 5:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 8:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 55 min |
| Oct 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.