Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2005, 1:49 PM CST for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2005, 1:49 PM CST (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2005, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 191950
FFWEWX
TXC385-192145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
149 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
REAL
* UNTIL 345 PM CST
* AT 146 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS....INCLUDING THE HEADWATERS OF THE FRIO AND NUECES RIVERS.
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 3009 9997 2987 10001 2964 10001 2965 9963
2991 9963 2991 9970 3009 9971
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 4:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales | 117 min |
| Mar 19, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.