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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 16, 2004, 5:59 PM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 260 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
- Jan 16, 2004, 5:59 PM CST (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 2004, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 260 days
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Burnet County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Llano County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 162359
FFWSAT
TXC053-299-170300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
559 PM CST FRI JAN 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
BURNET
LLANO
* UNTIL 900 PM CST
* AT 559 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
DOPPLER RAINFALL ESTIMATES SUGGEST RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES
SINCE THE RAINS BEGAN ON WEDNESDAY. THUS ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN THAT
FALLS WILL OCCUR AS RUNOFF. RADAR TRENDS SUGGEST UP TO 2 INCHES OF
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL POSSIBLE BY 730 PM. THIS WOULD LIKELY CREATE
DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING OVER ROUGH TERRAIN. TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED
THIS EVENING.
IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUT...BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE
FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER
BEGINS RISING.
LAT...LON 3056 9893 3054 9832 3049 9814 3100 9789
3102 9840 3092 9840 3091 9891
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS54 KEWX 021330
FFWSAT
TXC123-149-177-285-493-021630-
/X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0006.041002T1328Z-041002T1630Z/
/0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
828 AM CDT SAT OCT 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
FAYETTE
GONZALES
LAVACA
WILSON
DEWITT
* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
* AT 825 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WAELDER...SUBLIME...SCHULENBURG...
ROUND TOP...PALMETO...MULDOON...MOULTON...LA GRANGE...GONZALES...
FLATONIA...FAYETTEVILLE...ELLINGER AND CISTERN.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED IN THE NEXT FEW
HOURS FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING
AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED AREAS. A LITTLE
OVER A FOOT OF WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST CARS AND TRUCKS. TURN AROUND
- DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 2907 9693 2911 9699 2887 9730 2893 9741
2882 9758 2900 9775 2912 9761 2923 9772
2888 9819 2910 9841 2943 9814 2939 9813
2937 9784 2964 9764 3004 9704 3014 9666
3014 9666 2996 9658 2963 9687 2934 9658
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 3:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 255 days |
| Jan 16, 4:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr and 2 more | 260 days |
| Jan 16, 4:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Williamson | 260 days |
| Jan 16, 5:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca and 1 more | 260 days |
| Jan 16, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis | 260 days |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.