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Flash Flood Warning 150, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 24, 2007Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2007, 10:20 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 100 min. 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 24, 2007, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
100 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Burnet County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 250321
FFWEWX
TXC053-250500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1020 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BURNET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MARBLE FALLS...BURNET...BERTRAM...

* UNTIL 1200 AM CDT

* AT 1015 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO 
MODERATE RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS BLANCO COUNTY. RESIDUAL RUNOFF FROM
EARLIER HEAVY RAINS THIS EVENING WILL RESULT IN A CONTINUED THREAT
OF FLOODING ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS..OVER POOR DRAINAGE OR LOW LYING
FLOOD PRONE AREAS OR AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING 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.

WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.

IT IS HARD TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING AT NIGHT. IF FLOOD
WATERS RISE ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

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.

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 3051 9837 3046 9819 3101 9792 3099 9839

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet3 hr
May 24, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie3 hr
May 24, 8:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXLlano105 min
May 24, 8:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson3 hr
May 24, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie4 hr
May 24, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie4 hr
May 24, 10:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr4 hr
May 24, 11:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXWilliamson119 min
May 25, 12:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Val Verde3 hr
May 25, 12:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera3 hr
May 25, 12:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more57 hr
May 25, 1:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal3 hr
May 25, 1:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr
May 25, 2:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXUvalde113 min
May 25, 2:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr3 hr
May 25, 3:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Kinney, Val Verde3 hr
May 25, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde53 min
May 25, 3:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney59 min
May 25, 3:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera2 hr
May 25, 4:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal, Uvalde3 hr
May 25, 5:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Gillespie, Kerr3 hr
May 25, 6:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards2 hr
May 25, 7:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXReal, Uvalde70 min
May 25, 8:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real, Uvalde3 hr
May 25, 8:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Bexar, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Medina4 hr
May 25, 12:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.