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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 2005, 1:27 PM CDT for Gillespie 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
- Jul 23, 2005, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 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 231828 FFWEWX TXC171-232130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 127 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 124 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER GILLESPIE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WILLOW CITY...LUCKENBACH...HARPER AND FREDERICKSBURG. 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 3015 9927 3016 9864 3047 9863 3045 9925 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 232013 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 311 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005 TXC171-232130- GILLESPIE TX- 311 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR GILLESPIE COUNTY... AT 306 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS GILLESPIE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 430 PM. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OVER SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS. FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED AREAS. A LITTLE OVER A FOOT OF WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST CARS AND TRUCKS. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3015 9927 3016 9864 3047 9863 3045 9925 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 3 hr |
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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.