Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2005, 1:01 PM CDT for Edwards County, Real 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
- Aug 4, 2005, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, TX, Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 041804 FFWEWX TXC137-385-042100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 101 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... EDWARDS REAL * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 1254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST EDWARDS COUNTY NEAR BARKSDALE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. PERSONS ALONG THE NUECES RIVER NEAR CAMP WOOD SHOULD WATCH FOR A RISE ON THE RIVER. LAT...LON 2967 9981 2985 9987 3023 10015 2968 10049 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 041926 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 225 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 TXC137-385-042100- EDWARDS TX-REAL TX- 225 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR REAL AND EDWARDS COUNTIES... AT 220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING AND BUILDING TOWARDS THE WEST INTO VAL VERDE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE NEAR CARTA VALLEY MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST. RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 114 min |
| 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.