Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2007, 1:54 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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 30, 2007, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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 30, 2:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 S Burnet, TX | SOME HIGHWAYS IN BURNET COUNTY CLOSED, PARK ROAD 4 AND FM 1431, PLUS PEA SIZE HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEWX 301856 FFWEWX TXC053-302200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 154 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BURNET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MARBLE FALLS...BURNET...BERTRAM... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 149 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN BURNET COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT 1.5 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING 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. LAT...LON 3050 9835 3046 9816 3102 9791 3093 9838 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEWX 301942 FFSEWX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 240 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 TXC053-302200- BURNET TX- 240 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR BURNET COUNTY... AT 236 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF BURNET COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES OF 2.5 INCHES AN HOUR WERE BEING ESTIMATED BY RADAR. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BURNET AND BERTRAM. WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3050 9835 3046 9816 3102 9791 3102 9842 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 9:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 10:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 11 min |
| Mar 30, 11:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 11:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 21 min |
| Mar 30, 12:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 112 min |
| Mar 30, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 68 min |
| Mar 30, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 78 min |
| Mar 30, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 56 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.