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Flash Flood Warning 192, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 3, 2007Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2007, 10:52 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2007, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2007, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 11:20 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 0	1 Nw La Grange, TX	2.81 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR. REPORTED BY LCRA GAGE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 040352
FFWEWX
TXC149-040645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1052 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SCHULENBURG...LA GRANGE...

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT

* AT 1048 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT
  RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING FROM
  THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAYETTE COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROUND TOP
  AND FAYETTEVILLE

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.

LAT...LON 3003 9700 2979 9725 2967 9691 2995 9662
      3010 9669

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KEWX 040516
FFSEWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1215 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2007

TXC149-040645-
FAYETTE TX-
1215 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2007

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR
FAYETTE COUNTY...

AT 1212 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST INTO FAYETTE 
COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL RAINS AND RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE THAT COULD 
PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE NEXT HOUR.  

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LA GRANGE AND
ROUND TOP.

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

LAT...LON 3003 9700 2979 9725 2967 9691 2995 9662
      3010 9669

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	70 min
Jun 3, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	59 min
Jun 3, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	57 min
Jun 3, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	63 min
Jun 3, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	55 min
Jun 3, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	2 hr
Jun 3, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco	60 min
Jun 3, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Blanco	34 min
Jun 3, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	61 min
Jun 3, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays	58 min
Jun 3, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Medina	56 min
Jun 3, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	53 min
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Real	60 min
Jun 3, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe	59 min
Jun 3, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	37 min
Jun 3, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Wilson	62 min
Jun 3, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Maverick, Zavala	58 min
Jun 3, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	53 min
Jun 3, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa	58 min
Jun 3, 9:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	2 hr
Jun 3, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	60 min
Jun 3, 10:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	3 hr
Jun 3, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	39 min
Jun 3, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	64 min
Jun 3, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	67 min
Jun 3, 10:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	33 min
Jun 3, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick	39 min
Jun 3, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	18 min
Jun 4, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	33 min
Jun 4, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	27 min
Jun 4, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	56 min
Jun 4, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	58 min
Jun 4, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	65 min
Jun 4, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop	63 min
Jun 4, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee	39 min
Jun 4, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	48 min
Jun 4, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Guadalupe, Wilson	52 min

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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.