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Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2005, 12:18 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2005, 12:18 PM CDT (17:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 12:50 PM CDT | FLOOD | Kerrville, TX | MINOR STREET FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF KERRVILLE. BARRICADES UP ON HILL COUNTRY DRIVE NEAR SIDNEY BAKER STREET. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 829 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 101719
FFWEWX
TXC171-265-102015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1218 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
GILLESPIE
KERR
* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
* AT 1214 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORM FROM HARPER AND FREDERICKSBURG
TO KERRVILLE...CAMP VERDE AND COMFORT. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2
INCHES PER HOUR WERE NOTED.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HARPER.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
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.
REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3003 9938 2984 9898 3012 9899 3038 9883
3043 9925
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 101951
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
250 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005
TXC171-265-101959-
GILLESPIE TX-KERR TX-
250 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR KERR AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
AT 249 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
ONLY LIGHT RAIN ACROSS KERR AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES. THE THREAT FOR
ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED AND AS A RESULT...THE FLASH
FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3003 9938 2984 9898 3012 9899 3038 9883
3043 9925
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 119 min |
| Aug 10, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 12:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.