Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2007, 8:37 AM CDT for Edwards County, Kinney 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2007, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2007, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:39 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 3147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 071338
FFWEWX
TXC137-271-071630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
837 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ROCKSPRINGS...
KINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SPOFFORD...BRACKETTVILLE...
* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
* AT 830 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT
RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING
FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CARTA
VALLEY
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
AREAS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST FLOOD INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3028 9989 3011 9991 3009 9992 3009 9998
2985 10004 2980 10002 2972 10005 2963 10002
2963 10013 2945 10012 2909 10039 2909 10068
2917 10078 2924 10078 2924 10077 2943 10069
3029 10067
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 071423
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
923 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2007
TXC137-271-071630-
EDWARDS TX-KINNEY TX-
923 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM CDT FOR
KINNEY AND EDWARDS COUNTIES...
AT 918 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF ROCKSPRINGS TO
17 MILES WEST OF SPOFFORD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES
NORTH OF ROCKSPRINGS TO 11 MILES NORTH OF QUEMADO...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR...
ROCKSPRINGS BY 925 AM CDT...
ALAMO VILLAGE BY 945 AM CDT...
BRACKETTVILLE BY 950 AM CDT...
SPOFFORD BY 1005 AM CDT...
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
AREAS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST FLOOD INFORMATION.
REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3028 9989 3011 9991 3009 9992 3009 9998
2985 10004 2980 10002 2972 10005 2963 10002
2963 10013 2945 10012 2909 10039 2909 10068
2917 10078 2924 10078 2924 10077 2943 10069
3029 10067
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 27 min |
| May 7, 6:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| May 7, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 44 min |
| May 7, 7:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 33 min |
| May 7, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 64 min |
| May 7, 10:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| May 7, 11:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 86 min |
| May 7, 11:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Bandera, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 9 more | 13 hr |
| May 7, 12:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| May 7, 5:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| May 7, 6:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 3 hr |
| May 7, 6:11 PM CDT | Flood Watch | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.