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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 2, 2006Comal County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2006, 4:27 PM CDT for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
May 2, 2006, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comal County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3515 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 022128
FFWEWX
TXC091-022330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
427 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  COMAL

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 424 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN
  RIDGE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS...MOVING WEST AT 5
  MPH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN WILL FLOOD CREEKS, STREAMS, STREET
INTERSECTIONS, CULVERTS AND UNDERPASSES. LOW LYING PLACES THAT
NORMALLY FLOOD COULD BECOME DEATH TRAPS. DO NOT CROSS ANY FLOODED 
AREA. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.

LAT...LON 2961 9832 2969 9810 2975 9802 2985 9814
      2974 9836 2972 9834 2969 9837 2965 9834
      2962 9834

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal, Guadalupe66 min
May 2, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop61 min
May 2, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar63 min
May 2, 5:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
May 2, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell57 min
May 2, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar60 min
May 2, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa58 min
May 2, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina61 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.