Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2007, 9:40 AM CDT for Kinney 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
- Sep 4, 2007, 9:40 AM CDT (14:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2007, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Kinney County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:39 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 11:10 AM CDT | FLOOD | 3 Ene Brackettville, TX | HIGHWAY FM694 AND FM334 WERE CLOSED FOR A TIME DUE TO WATER OVER THE ROAD. |
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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 041444 FFWEWX TXC271-041745- /X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0001.070904T1440Z-070904T1745Z/ /00000.0.RS.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 940 AM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KINNEY COUNTY... * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT. * AT 934 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING FROM VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN HALF OF KINNEY COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR WERE NOTED FROM BRACKETTVILLE ALONG AND WEST OF FARM ROAD 674 AND ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 90. THESE IMPACTS WILL ALSO BE ALONG FARM ROADS 2523 AND 3008 AS WELL AS SYCAMORE CREEK. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ALAMO VILLAGE. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. LAT...LON 2959 10063 2963 10018 2916 10032 2918 10075 TIME...MOT...LOC 1440Z 180DEG 0KT 2940 10046 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 041542 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1035 AM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 TXC271-041745- /X.CON.KEWX.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070904T1745Z/ /00000.0.RS.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KINNEY TX- 1035 AM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR KINNEY COUNTY... AT 1033 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED RAINFALL RAPIDLY DECREASING IN INTENSITY WHILE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE MOVED NORTH OUT OF KINNEY COUNTY. EARLIER VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING FROM WEST OF BRACKETTVILLE WEST TO THE KINNEY COUNTY LINE INCLUDING HIGHWAY 90 AND FARM ROADS 674 AND 3008. THIS INCLUDES PERDIDO...PINTO AND SYCAMORE CREEKS. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ALAMO VILLAGE. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. LAT...LON 2959 10063 2963 10018 2916 10032 2918 10075 TIME...MOT...LOC 1535Z 180DEG 0KT 2940 10046 $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 041616 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1113 AM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 TXC271-041745- /X.CON.KEWX.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070904T1745Z/ /00000.0.RS.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KINNEY TX- 1113 AM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR KINNEY COUNTY... AT 1108 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED PATCHY LIGHT RAIN MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH ACROSS KINNEY COUNTY. DUE TO EARLIER VERY HEAVY RAINS...SOME FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED FOR AREAS WEST OF BRACKETTVILLE ALONG HIGHWAY 90 AND FARM ROADS 674 AND 3008. THIS INCLUDES PERDIDO...PINTO AND SYCAMORE CREEKS. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ALAMO VILLAGE. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. LAT...LON 2959 10063 2963 10018 2916 10032 2918 10075 TIME...MOT...LOC 1613Z 180DEG 0KT 2940 10046 $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 041753 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1249 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 TXC271-041759- /X.EXP.KEWX.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070904T1745Z/ /00000.0.RS.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KINNEY TX- 1249 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR KINNEY COUNTY... AT 1249 AM CDT...ONLY PATCHY LIGHT RAINS WERE NOTED ACROSS KINNEY COUNTY. THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...SOME MINOR FLOODING FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS MAY PERSIST NORTH AND WEST OF BRACKETTVILLE ALONG HIGHWAY 90 AND FARM ROADS 674 AND 3008. THIS INCLUDES PERDIDO...PINTO AND SYCAMORE CREEKS. LAT...LON 2959 10063 2963 10018 2916 10032 2918 10075 TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 180DEG 0KT 2940 10046 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 34 hr |
| Sep 4, 11:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.