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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2005, 6:58 PM CDT for Maverick 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 9, 2005, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Maverick County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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, 12.0 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
- 1667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 092359 FFWEWX TXC323-100300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 658 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... MAVERICK * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM QUEMADO TO EAGLE PASS. THESE STORM WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.. * THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN OVER... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF MAVERICK. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 2839 10029 2860 10014 2896 10025 2903 10062 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 100029 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 726 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 TXC323-100300- MAVERICK TX- 726 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MAVERICK COUNTY... AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MAVERICK COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF EL INDIO TO 6 MILES EAST OF QUEMADO. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OVER SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS. LAT...LON 2839 10029 2860 10014 2896 10025 2903 10062 $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 100127 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 822 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 TXC323-100300- MAVERICK TX- 822 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MAVERICK COUNTY... AT 816 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE EASTERN MAVERICK COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS KINNEY COUNTY WERE MOVING SOUTH INTO NORTHERN MAVERICK COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 2 INCHES AN HOUR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF EL INDIO. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT STAY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. LAT...LON 2839 10029 2838 10014 2907 10014 2906 10066 $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 100257 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 956 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 TXC323-100306- MAVERICK TX- 956 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MAVERICK COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1000 PM CDT... LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL CONTINUES ACROSS MAVERICK COUNTY. HOWEVER NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. LAT...LON 2839 10029 2838 10014 2907 10014 2906 10066 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 117 min |
| Aug 9, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 82 min |
| Aug 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 82 min |
| Aug 9, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 47 min |
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.