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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2005, 7:36 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 114 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
- Aug 3, 2005, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2005, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 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 040037 FFWEWX TXC171-040230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 736 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... GILLESPIE * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER GILLESPIE COUNTY...MAINLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 290. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 3025 9928 3025 9877 3050 9874 3050 9929 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 117 min |
| Aug 4, 5:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.