Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2005, 7:16 AM CDT for Travis County, Williamson 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 5, 2005, 7:16 AM CDT (12:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2005, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 051219
FFWEWX
TXC453-491-051515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
716 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
WILLIAMSON
TRAVIS
* UNTIL 1015 AM CDT
* AT 714 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM FLORENCE
TO LAGO VISTA AND LAKEWAY...THEN EAST TO GEORGETOWN...ROUND ROCK
AND COUPLAND.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WEIR...SERENADA...LIBERTY HILL...
JARRELL...GEORGETOWN DAM...GEORGETOWN...FLORENCE AND ANDICE.
THE STORMS WERE SHOWING RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES AND LITTLE
OR NO MOVEMENT. THESE SAME AREAS HAD VERY HEAVY RAINFALL YESTERDAY
AND LAST NIGHT...THUS RUNOFF WILL BE MORE RAPID.
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 3041 9810 3031 9784 3033 9753 3043 9732
3050 9720 3087 9763 3091 9783
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 051444
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
941 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005
TXC453-491-051515-
WILLIAMSON TX-TRAVIS TX-
941 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR TRAVIS AND
WILLIAMSON COUNTIES...
AT 936 AM CDT...MOST OF THE STRONGEST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTY HAVE DISSIPATED. HOWEVER...THERE IS
STILL A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY WHICH IS
MOVING SOUTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER STORMS AND NEW RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AS WELL AS SMALL STREAMS.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WEIR...SERENADA AND JARRELL.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
WATER COVERED AREAS. A LITTLE OVER A FOOT OF WATER CAN CARRY AWAY
MOST CARS AND TRUCKS. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3041 9810 3031 9784 3033 9753 3043 9732
3050 9720 3087 9763 3091 9783
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 7:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 82 min |
| Aug 5, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 8:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet | 117 min |
| Aug 5, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 118 min |
| Aug 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 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.