Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 417, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 25, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 252215 FFWEWX TXC137-260115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 513 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 505 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE THAT FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF EDWARDS COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 1 INCH AN HOUR SOUTH OF CARTA VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 15 MPH. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF AND FLASH FLOODING. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN WILL FLOOD CREEKS, STREAMS, STREET INTERSECTIONS, CULVERTS AND UNDERPASSES. LOW LYING PLACES THAT NORMALLY FLOOD COULD BECOME DEATH TRAPS. DO NOT CROSS ANY FLOODED AREA. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2965 10066 2965 10015 2985 10036 2986 10067 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KEWX 252250 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 548 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 TXC137-260115- EDWARDS TX- 548 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EDWARDS COUNTY... AT 539 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF EDWARDS COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 2.5 INCHES AN HOUR ALONG FM2523. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 2965 10066 2965 10015 2985 10036 2986 10067 $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 252328 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 626 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 TXC137-260115- EDWARDS TX- 626 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EDWARDS COUNTY... AT 620 PM CDT...SHOWERS PRODUCING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF EDWARDS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 10 MPH. RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS MAY STILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 2965 10066 2965 10015 2985 10036 2986 10067 $$
000 WGUS74 KEWX 260026 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 726 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 TXC137-260036- EDWARDS TX- 726 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EDWARDS COUNTY... HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED ACROSS EDWARDS COUNTY. LAT...LON 2965 10066 2965 10015 2985 10036 2986 10067 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 10:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 11:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 11:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Gonzales, Hays | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 2:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 29 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.