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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 5, 2005Bandera County, Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2005, 2:52 PM CDT for Bandera County, Medina 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, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bandera County, TX, Medina County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 679 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 051954
FFWEWX
TXC019-325-052245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
252 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  BANDERA
  MEDINA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TARPLEY...PIPE CREEK...MICO...
  MEDINA...LAKEHILLS AND BANDERA.

A STRONG STORM IS CURRENTLY LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA LAKE 
IN MEDINA COUNTY.  THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 10 MPH AND 
WILL CROSS INTO BANDERA COUNTY SHORTLY.  THIS STORM HAS THE 
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TWO INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT HOUR.

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

LAT...LON 2917 9888 2968 9884 2985 9914 2982 9958
      2963 9938 2916 9936

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS74 KEWX 052140
FFSEWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
438 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005

TXC019-325-052245-
BANDERA TX-MEDINA TX-
438 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR MEDINA AND
BANDERA COUNTIES...

AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN 
BANDERA COUNTY MOVING NORTHWARD. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 
1.5 INCHES AN HOUR.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MEDINA.

LAT...LON 2917 9888 2968 9884 2985 9914 2982 9958
      2963 9938 2916 9936

$$
000 
WGUS74 KEWX 052242
FFSEWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
541 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005

TXC019-325-052251-
BANDERA TX-MEDINA TX-
541 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MEDINA AND BANDERA COUNTIES EXPIRES AT
545 PM CDT...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES AND THE 
THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED AT THIS TIME. ADDITIONAL 
THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS EVENING INTO EARLY TONIGHT.

LAT...LON 2917 9888 2968 9884 2985 9914 2982 9958
      2963 9938 2916 9936

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 7:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall113 min
Aug 4, 7:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie2 hr
Aug 4, 9:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall82 min
Aug 5, 12:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson2 hr
Aug 5, 7:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson3 hr
Aug 5, 8:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet117 min
Aug 5, 12:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Kinney, Real3 hr
Aug 5, 1:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDeWitt3 hr
Aug 5, 1:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde3 hr
Aug 5, 2:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
Aug 5, 2:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde3 hr
Aug 5, 4:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGonzales118 min
Aug 5, 5:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXFayette3 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.