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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 29, 2005Kerr County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2005, 5:25 PM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
May 29, 2005, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2005, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
3 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), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 128 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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 292226
FFWEWX
TXC265-300130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
525 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KERRVILLE
  STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KERRVILLE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS LIKELY PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 
2 INCHES NEAR HIGHWAY 16 SOUTH OF KERRVILLE. HEAVY RAINS AND FLASH 
FLOODING COULD SPREAD INTO THE CAMP VERDE AND COMFORT AREAS BY 6 PM.

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

LAT...LON 3013 9936 2994 9933 2993 9917 2983 9895
      3014 9894

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMaverick63 min
May 28, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano34 min
May 28, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio, Medina33 min
May 28, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar88 min
May 28, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall43 min
May 29, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet43 min
May 29, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt56 min
May 29, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLavaca63 min
May 29, 5:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDeWitt, Lavaca3 hr
May 29, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKarnes42 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.