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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 6, 2004Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 6, 2004, 6:59 AM CDT for Burnet 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
Apr 6, 2004, 6:59 AM CDT (11:59 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2004, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burnet County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 061200
FFWSAT
TXC053-061400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
659 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  BURNET

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT

* AT 659 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS 
  INDICATED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AROUND SPICEWOOD IN 
  SOUTHERN BURNET COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE 
  THROUGH 730 AM AS NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN OVER 
  THE SAME AREAS.

WITH RAINFALL TOTALS POTENTIALLY REACHING 3 INCHES IN A 4 HOUR 
PERIOD IN ADDITION TO ALREADY SATURATED SOILS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS 
OVER PARTS OF BURNET COUNTY WILL LIKELY BECOME FLOODED.

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 3051 9832 3048 9817 3093 9787 3101 9837

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KEWX 061400
FFSSAT
TXC053-061410-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
900 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BURNET COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING AND
THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...
BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD
WARNING HAS EXPIRED.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 9:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde3 hr
Apr 5, 9:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall, Val Verde3 hr
Apr 5, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Val Verde66 min
Apr 5, 10:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards3 hr
Apr 5, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Kerr, Real56 min
Apr 6, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr31 min
Apr 6, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr10 min
Apr 6, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr63 min
Apr 6, 1:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real, Val Verde4 hr
Apr 6, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie59 min
Apr 6, 2:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXMaverick3 hr
Apr 6, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco57 min
Apr 6, 3:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXUvalde3 hr
Apr 6, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays, Travis64 min
Apr 6, 3:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
Apr 6, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilliamson67 min
Apr 6, 5:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera3 hr
Apr 6, 5:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr, Real2 hr
Apr 6, 6:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Kendall, Travis, Williamson3 hr
Apr 6, 8:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr116 min
Apr 6, 9:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson108 min
Apr 6, 9:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall105 min
Apr 6, 11:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson110 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.