Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 2007, 12:28 PM CDT for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 13, 2007, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Karnes County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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 13, 2:42 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Karnes City, TX | FM 1144 TO US HWY 81 CLOSED. |
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 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 131731 FFWEWX TXC255-132300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1228 PM CDT TUE MAR 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... KARNES * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 1224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KARNES COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RUNGE AND KARNES CITY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. DUE TO PREVIOUS RAINFALL...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL BE QUICK TO RUNOFF. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTRA CAUTION. DO NOT EVER TRY TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. LAT...LON 2875 9802 2882 9769 2911 9777 2891 9810 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 16 min |
| Mar 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 16 min |
| Mar 12, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 3 hr |
| Mar 12, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 27 min |
| Mar 12, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 114 min |
| Mar 12, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 29 min |
| Mar 13, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 4:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 19 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 32 min |
| Mar 13, 11:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 34 min |
| Mar 13, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 1:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lavaca, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 12 min |
| Mar 13, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 23 min |
| Mar 13, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 46 min |
| Mar 13, 2:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Llano | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 64 min |
| Mar 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 23 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.