Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 29, 2006, 4:40 PM CST for Lavaca 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
- Mar 29, 2006, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2006, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lavaca County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 292242
FFWEWX
TXC285-300145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
440 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
LAVACA
* UNTIL 745 PM CST
* AT 429 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED SOUTH OF
HALLETTSVILLE BETWEEN YOAKUM AND SPEAKS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT
5 TO 10 MPH. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 4 INCHES AN HOUR.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPEAKS AND EZZELL.
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
LAT...LON 2916 9698 2912 9686 2932 9661 2941 9670
2934 9698
$$5 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KEWX 292302
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
500 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
TXC285-300145-
LAVACA TX-
500 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR
LAVACA COUNTY...
AT 452 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN
LAVACA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. RAINFALL
RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 4 TO 6 INCHES AN HOUR JUST SOUTHEAST OF EZZELL.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPEAKS AND EZZELL.
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
LAT...LON 2916 9698 2912 9686 2932 9661 2941 9670
2934 9698
$$000
WGUS74 KEWX 292332
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
528 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
TXC285-300145-
LAVACA TX-
528 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR
LAVACA COUNTY...
AT 521 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN
LAVACA COUNTY. THE HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING JUST SOUTHEAST OF
EZZELL. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH AND RAINFALL RATES
WERE ESTIMATED AT 4 INCHES AN HOUR. PEA SIZED HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPEAKS AND EZZELL.
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
LAT...LON 2916 9698 2912 9686 2932 9661 2941 9670
2934 9698
$$000
WGUS74 KEWX 300002
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
556 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
TXC285-300145-
LAVACA TX-
556 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR
LAVACA COUNTY...
AT 550 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN
LAVACA COUNTY. THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY.
THE HEAVIEST RAINS CONTINUE SOUTHEAST OF EZZELL.
4.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS BEEN RECORDED AT THE EZZELL SCHOOL.
COUNTY AND PRIVATE ROADS SOUTHEAST OF EZZELL ARE LIKELY
EXPERIENCING FLOODING WHERE THEY CROSS THE NORMALLY DRY BRANCHES
OF THE LAVACA RIVER.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPEAKS AND EZZELL.
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
LAT...LON 2916 9698 2912 9686 2932 9661 2941 9670
2934 9698
$$000
WGUS74 KEWX 300029
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
626 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
TXC285-300145-
LAVACA TX-
626 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR
LAVACA COUNTY...
AT 618 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED ACROSS LAVACA COUNTY. HOWEVER
RUNOFF MAY STILL BE CAUSING FLASH FLOODING SOUTHEAST OF EZZELL. DOPPLER
RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAINFALL FELL IN AND AROUND
EZZELL.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE EZZELL.
DO NOT DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER
CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. TURN
AROUND DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 2916 9698 2912 9686 2932 9661 2941 9670
2934 9698
$$000
WGUS74 KEWX 300102
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
701 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
TXC285-300111-
LAVACA TX-
701 PM CST WED MAR 29 2006
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LAVACA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED ACROSS LAVACA COUNTY. NO REPORTS OF FLASH
FLOODING WERE RECEIVED.
LAT...LON 2916 9698 2912 9686 2932 9661 2941 9670
2934 9698
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.