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Flash Flood Warning 352, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 20, 2007Blanco County, Kendall County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2007, 1:53 PM CDT for Blanco County, Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 97 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
Jul 20, 2007, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
97 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Blanco County, TX, Kendall County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 716 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 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 201854
FFWEWX
TXC031-259-202030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
153 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BLANCO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLANCO...
  KENDALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOERNE...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 150 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT
  RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING FROM
  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JOHNSON CITY TO KENDALIA TO BOERNE.
  RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PEDERNALES
  FALLS STATE PARK...JOHNSON CITY AND CYPRESS MILL

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

LAT...LON 2971 9879 3003 9832 3041 9816 3035 9852
      3013 9857 3007 9883

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 9:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson3 hr
Jul 20, 11:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more48 hr
Jul 20, 12:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Wilson3 hr
Jul 20, 12:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Wilson3 hr
Jul 20, 1:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa119 min
Jul 20, 2:13 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWXComal, Guadalupe17 hr
Jul 20, 2:13 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWXComal, Guadalupe19 hr
Jul 20, 3:00 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe23 hr
Jul 20, 3:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal and 10 more4 hr
Jul 20, 4:51 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWXHays94 min
Jul 20, 5:42 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWXKarnes4 days
Jul 20, 5:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXDimmit, Maverick, Zavala4 hr
Jul 20, 6:43 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWXComal, Gonzales, Guadalupe27 hr
Jul 20, 6:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson3 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.