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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 4, 2007Atascosa County, Bexar County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2007, 8:18 PM CDT for Atascosa County, Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 2007, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2007, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Flood severity
None

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bexar County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1967 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
1967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
973 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEWX 050121
FFWEWX
TXC013-029-050315-
/X.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0003.070905T0118Z-070905T0315Z/
/00000.0.RS.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
818 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ATASCOSA COUNTY...
  BEXAR COUNTY...

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

* AT 812 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT
  RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING FROM
  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CHARLOTTE TO SOMERSET.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  LACOSTE...ELMENDORF...CALAVERAS LAKE...LACKLAND AFB...SEA WORLD...
  CHINA GROVE...SAN ANTONIO...LEON VALLEY...OLMOS PARK...KIRBY...
  TERRELL HILLS...ALAMO HEIGHTS...ST. HEDWIG...HELOTES...WINDCREST...
  SHAVANO PARK...HILL COUNTRY VILLAGE...LIVE OAK...CROSS MOUNTAIN...
  HOLLYWOOD PARK...UNIVERSAL CITY...SCHERTZ...THE DOMINION...LEON
  SPRINGS...SELMA...FAIR OAKS RANCH AND TIMBERWOOD PARK.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING NORTHWARD FROM CHARLOTTE TO 
SOMERSET MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS 
OF ONE TO THREE INCHES AND SPREAD NORTHEAST INTO THE SAN ANTONIO 
AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. 

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

LAT...LON 2972 9844 2976 9841 2973 9836 2967 9839
      2960 9834 2956 9829 2957 9824 2946 9813
      2912 9842 2878 9811 2861 9834 2864 9835
      2864 9880 2970 9881 2976 9866 2974 9862
      2977 9856
TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 197DEG 15KT 2926 9867

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 10:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.