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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2005, 1:28 PM CDT for Val Verde 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, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 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 Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 051830
FFWEWX
TXC465-052130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
128 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
VAL VERDE
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 118 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF
THE COUNTY MOVING TO THE WEST. UP TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FROM
THESE STORMS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OVER SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND POORLY
DRAINED AREAS.
LAT...LON 2970 10138 2965 10138 2964 10132 2958 10131
2959 10125 2953 10126 2947 10109 2937 10101
2924 10081 2925 10077 2944 10070 3029 10070
3028 10176 3028 10176 2978 10176 2978 10147
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 052125
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
425 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005
TXC465-052135-
VAL VERDE TX-
425 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY AND THE THREAT
OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED AT THIS TIME. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS
ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.
LAT...LON 2970 10138 2965 10138 2964 10132 2958 10131
2959 10125 2953 10126 2947 10109 2937 10101
2924 10081 2925 10077 2944 10070 3029 10070
3028 10176 3028 10176 2978 10176 2978 10147
$$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, 7:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 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, 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 |
Nearby
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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.