Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2005, 4:33 PM CST for DeWitt County, Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 117 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, 4:33 PM CST (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2005, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties DeWitt County, TX, Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 192233
FFWEWX
TXC123-177-200030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
433 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
GONZALES
DEWITT
* UNTIL 630 PM CST
* AT 429 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE YOAKUM...WESTHOFF...WAELDER...
SMILEY...PALMETO...NIXON...HOCHHEIM...GONZALES AND CHEAPSIDE.
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 2900 9775 2912 9761 2936 9786 2964 9764
2963 9760 2978 9732 2965 9715 2958 9721
2939 9724 2911 9699 2887 9730 2893 9741
2882 9758
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 192300
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
456 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005
TXC123-177-200030-
GONZALES TX-DEWITT TX-
456 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR DEWITT AND
GONZALES COUNTIES...
AT 455 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED
AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF NEAR 3 INCHES AN HOUR WERE ESTIMATED NEAR
YORKTOWN AT 450 PM.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WAELDER...PALMETO...HOCHHEIM AND
GONZALES.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED AREAS. A LITTLE
OVER A FOOT OF WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST CARS AND TRUCKS. TURN AROUND
DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 2900 9775 2912 9761 2936 9786 2964 9764
2963 9760 2978 9732 2965 9715 2958 9721
2939 9724 2911 9699 2887 9730 2893 9741
2882 9758
$$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, 1:49 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 116 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, 4:38 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 |
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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.