Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 449, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2007, 1:23 AM CDT for Kinney 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 31, 2007, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2007, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kinney County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:26 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 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 310625
FFWEWX
TXC271-311030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
123 AM CDT TUE JUL 31 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
KINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 530 AM CDT
* AT 118 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT
RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING FROM
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH OVER WESTERN
KINNEY COUNTY.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
AREAS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST FLOOD INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 2924 10077 2926 10074 2933 10074 2934 10071
2937 10070 2962 10069 2963 10041 2909 10044
2908 10066 2917 10078
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KEWX 310705
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
200 AM CDT TUE JUL 31 2007
TXC271-311030-
KINNEY TX-
200 AM CDT TUE JUL 31 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR
KINNEY COUNTY...
AT 154 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING MOVING
NORTH AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN KINNEY COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL
PRODUCE ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS
WHICH WILL CAUSE RAPID RUNOFF AND DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING.
RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN WILL FLOOD CREEKS, STREAMS, STREET
INTERSECTIONS, CULVERTS AND UNDERPASSES. LOW LYING PLACES THAT
NORMALLY FLOOD COULD BECOME DEATH TRAPS. DO NOT CROSS ANY FLOODED
AREA. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 2924 10077 2926 10074 2933 10074 2934 10071
2937 10070 2962 10069 2963 10041 2909 10044
2908 10066 2917 10078
$$000
WGUS74 KEWX 310930
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
428 AM CDT TUE JUL 31 2007
TXC271-311030-
KINNEY TX-
428 AM CDT TUE JUL 31 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR
KINNEY COUNTY...
AT 418 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED NO
SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY OVER THE WARNED AREA...BUT RUNOFF
FROM EARLIER RAINS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN KINNEY COUNTY.
IT IS HARD TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING AT NIGHT. IF FLOOD
WATERS RISE ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
LAT...LON 2924 10077 2926 10074 2933 10074 2934 10071
2937 10070 2962 10069 2963 10041 2909 10044
2908 10066 2917 10078
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 11 hr |
| Jul 31, 11:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 20 days |
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.