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Flash Flood Warning 445, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2007, 1:11 PM CDT for Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 29, 2007, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 291812 FFWEWX TXC507-292200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 111 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ZAVALA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LA PRYOR...CRYSTAL CITY... BATESVILLE... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 111 PM CDT...ZAVALA COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN SOUTHERN ZAVALA COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES 5-7 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN SOUTHERN ZAVALA COUNTY. ANOTHER 1-3 INCHES IS LIKELY THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 57. THIS INCLUDES LA PRYOR... CRYSTAL CITY...COMETA...LOMA VISTA...AND AREAS ALONG FM ROADS 1025...1867...393...3292...582...AND 1688. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. LAT...LON 2864 10010 2864 9941 2897 9942 2896 10010 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 10:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 11:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 32 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 4:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Zavala | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 4 days |
| Jul 29, 10:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 11:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 6:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 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.