Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2005, 4:05 AM CDT for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 115 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
- Jun 1, 2005, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2005, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Comal County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 3659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 010905
FFWEWX
TXC091-011100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
405 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
COMAL
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 405 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING BRANCH...GUADALUPE RIVER
STATE PARK...FISCHER AND CANYON LAKE DAM.
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 2975 9864 3003 9830 2985 9805 2978 9801
2976 9801 2969 9809 2966 9819 2960 9831
2960 9833
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 010952
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
451 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2005
TXC091-011100-
COMAL TX-
451 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR COMAL
COUNTY...
AT 436 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED
1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS COMAL COUNTY. LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER COMAL COUNTY THROUGH 6 AM.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING BRANCH...SMITHSON VALLEY...
FISCHER AND CANYON LAKE DAM.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OVER SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND POORLY
DRAINED AREAS.
REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 2963 9834 2967 9838 2974 9835 2973 9838
2976 9842 2973 9844 2977 9855 2975 9862
3002 9830 2985 9805 2978 9801 2970 9808
2962 9829
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 1:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 3:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Kendall | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kendall, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 3:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Medina | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 6:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Zavala | 23 min |
| Jun 1, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 43 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.