Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 2007, 7:57 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 4 reports 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
- Mar 11, 2007, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2007, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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 00:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 8:39 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 W Marble Falls, TX | HEAVY RAINFALL HAS CAUSED A ROCK SLIDE NEAR MARBLE FALLS WHICH HAS CLOSED HIGHWAY 2147. |
| Mar 11, 8:44 PM CDT | FLOOD | 5 Se Marble Falls, TX | RISING WATER IN THE MEADOW LAKES SUBDIVISION IS FLOWING INTO INTO THEIR HOUSES. |
| Mar 11, 9:30 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 0 | 4 W Marble Falls, TX | ESTIMATED OVER 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM 6PM TO 8PM. |
| Mar 11, 9:41 PM CDT | FLOOD | 2 E Marble Falls, TX | SEVERAL STREAMS AND CREEKS OVER THE BANKS IN AND AROUND MARBLE FALLS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 120058 FFWEWX TXC053-120400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 757 PM CDT SUN MAR 11 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BURNET * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 756 PM CDT...RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN THE WARNING AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE MARBLE FALLS TO SPICEWOOD TO BERTRAM AREAS. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MARBLE FALLS 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 3052 9833 3046 9815 3066 9806 3072 9833 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 120150 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 847 PM CDT SUN MAR 11 2007 TXC053-120157- BURNET TX- 847 PM CDT SUN MAR 11 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BURNET COUNTY... THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF BURNET COUNTY. THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL REDEVELOP LATER TONIGHT. LAT...LON 3052 9833 3046 9815 3066 9806 3072 9833 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 63 min |
| Mar 11, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 41 min |
| Mar 11, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 55 min |
| Mar 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 60 min |
| Mar 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal | 30 min |
| Mar 11, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal | 33 min |
| Mar 11, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 60 min |
| Mar 11, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays | 3 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 95 min |
| Mar 12, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 3 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Kendall | 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.